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PreS-Gr 1—After an embarrassing incident in class, a boy decides that he is a laughingstock and does not want to return to Lakeview Elementary. "I've been lots of things. Hungry. Four years old. Crazy bored. Soaking wet…. But the worst thing to be is what I am right now." Vernick builds the narrative tension masterfully as the narrator miserably considers ways he might hide from his shame. Maybe he could use magic? A time machine? Unfortunately, there is...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

“I can’t stop thinking about it. How everyone laughed and slapped their desks and stomped their feet. And pointed. At me.” The narrator’s social infraction? “I. Called. My. Teacher. MOMMY!!!” It’s a typical-enough blunder among kids new to school (“Don’t worry. It happens every year,” tosses off the boy’s teacher), but what kid in any new situation feels typical? Having suffered what he perceives as landmark mortification, the narrator concludes that dropping out of school is his only opti...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Having suffered landmark mortification ("I. Called. My. Teacher. MOMMY!!!"), the narrator concludes his only option is dropping out of schoo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Readers will sympathize with this first grader as he describes being laughed at by a "big marching band" of classmates (including his best friend!) after he accidentally calls his teacher "Mommy." From the opening lines, the narrator's voice stands out ("I've been lots of things. Hungry. Four years old. Crazy-bored. Soaking wet.") and ma...Log In or Sign Up to Read More