I am a slow-comer to this book, and I wish I'd added it to my read-aloud repetoire years ago!
Great Opening: If you asked the kids and the teachers at Lincoln Elementary School to make three lists--all the really bad kids, all the really smart kids, and all the really good kids--Nick Allen would not be on any of them. Nick deserved a list of all his own, and everyone knew it.
Nick was an expert at asking the delaying question--also known as the teacher-stopper, or the guaranteed-time-waster.
Mrs. Granger, champion of the forces of order and authority, is battling hundreds of young frindle-fighters.
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