Summer book #11: The Best School Year Ever by Barbara Robinson. I kinda feel like a cheater pants including this book on my summer list because it is so short, and geared toward elementary students. However, it is summer, it is a book, and I did read it, so it counts.
A little back story...Several years in a row, in elementary school, my teachers read The Best Christmas Pageant Ever to us, and showed us the movie. I always enjoyed it. A couple of years ago, I found that neither of my kids had ever heard of the book, much less read it. I purchased the book, and as soon as it came in the mail, I read it aloud to them. I enjoyed sharing something from my younger days with them.
Not long after I read the Christmas book to them, The Best School Year Ever was a selection in a book order form that my daughter brought home from school. I didn't know that a sequel existed, but I had to have it. Sometime after the book came in, it went missing. I found it a couple of weeks ago when cleaning my daughter's room. I read it today.
This book chronicles the antics performed by the Herdman children-the worst kids in town-during a school year. It starts with the narrator's (Beth's) teacher giving the students an assignment at the beginning of school: they have to find compliments for their classmates. They have to come up with at least one for everyone in class. At some point in the year, each student draws the name of another student, and has to come up with several compliments for that student. Beth draws Imogene Herdman. Again, she is a juvenile delinquent, and Beth finds it difficult to come up with nice things to say about Imogene. Beth uses the antics chronicled in the book to come up with her compliments. Her compliments make Imogene feel good.
Not as good as the Christmas book, but this was a cute, lighthearted read. If I taught elementary school, this would be one I read to my class.
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