(Audio Book)Author/Illustrator: Trudi Strain Trueit
Plot Summary: Obnoxious nine year old brother tortures his "perfect" twin sister by creating a sister repellent spray and selling it to all of their friends.
Comments: This was the first book I have read for this database project that I did not like. Although elementary age boys would like the potty humor, the disrespect for teachers and other authority figures was beyond appropriate. Scab, the main character, was self-centered until the very end and even then was not very genuinely forgiving. He is going to make one heck of an adult male. What made it worse was listening to the audio book. The boy's voices were not too bad but the girls sounded like Cartman from South Park.
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I haven't decided if I would buy this for my media center - probably not - but I would not include it in any classroom activities.
Themes/keywords: twins, brothers and sisters, behavior schools
Age/Reading Level: Interest level - 3 - 6; ATOS - 3.2; Follett - 3.9
Standards:
ELA4R2(through eighth grade) The student consistently reads at least twenty-five books or book equivalents (approximately 1,000,000 words) each year. The materials should include traditional and contemporary literature (both fiction and non-fiction) as well as magazines, newspapers, textbooks, and electronic material. Such reading should represent a diverse collection of material from at least three different literary forms and from at least five different writers.
Publisher's Info: Aladdin, New York. 2009
ISBN-13: 978-1-41697-592-2
ISBN-10: 1-41697-592-6
Awards/Review Sources:
It did get some positive reviews.
Wilson's Children 07/01/09 | School Library Journal 03/01/09 |
| Booklist 04/01/09 | Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 03/01/09 |
Genre/Dewey: Fiction
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Notes for Booktalk: Evidently, it is the first in a series; maybe the rest will be better. The book cover is reminiscent of dorky cartoons from Cartoon Network(the audio book cover is different.)
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