Content: G
BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) - ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH
An elementary school student, who wishes to keep his identity a secret, recounts his first day at a new school. He wants to remain anonymous because he is embarrassed by the things that always seem to happen to him. On the first day of school, he wakes up late, misses the bus, and is followed to school by a pack of dogs. This is just the beginning of the bad luck that follows him. At school he finds things to be a little odd, the library and gym share the same space and the boy and his new friends discover a tunnel beneath the school.
A fun story about a boy and the bad luck that follows him. But despite the bad things that happen, he is able to make the best of things and make some new friends. This would be a good book for a beginning reader. The text and language are easy to read and there are illustrations on every page. Children will relate to the boy's feelings of nervousness and excitement about starting at a new school. This is the first book in the series The Very Worst Ever. Ethnicity is not explained but the illustrations indicate that Regina is black, Jake is white, the main character is white and Glinda is brown.
A. Snow
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