Results tagged “Prank”

BOOK NAME: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw    
AUTHOR: Jeff Kinney

This is the third of four books that I know of about Greg Heffley, The Wimpy Kid. I've read all but one of the books and I like them all. Even though each book has "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" in the title, Greg makes it clear at the start of each one that the book is NOT a diary, but a journal. He explains that diaries are for writing down your feelings and others might think he's a sissy if they see him carrying around a diary. So his books are journals, which just tell about what happens in his life.

In the beginning of this book, Greg is always accidentally making his dad mad by doing things like watching TV rather than going outside to play and making noises at night that wake up his dad. In the book, Greg admits to having a crush on a classmate named Holly Hills so he tries to make her have a crush on him by doing goofy things, like telling jokes. It doesn't work. Greg then meets a girl named Trista and he ends up falling in love with her. He  plans to bring her to his friend Rowley's pool for a date, but he runs out of paper in his journal before he tells what happens.

I like the Wimpy Kid books because they are funny and they give me ideas for pranks and jokes to do with my friends, my dad, my mom and my brothers. If Greg were real, I'd like to play with him.

BOOK NAME: Ivy + Bean    
AUTHOR: Annie Barrows and Sophie Blackall

This is a story about two kids who were never meant to like each other, but became best friends. You see, Ivy and Bean are total opposites. Ivy is a girly girl, a bookworm and always wears pink.  Bean is a tomboy, sporty and is always getting into a little bit of trouble. They are total opposites. 

This book follows Bean as she plays tricks on her older sister. During one of these tricks, Bean escapes into Ivy's backyard. This is where the unlikely friends meet. Soon, Bean discovers that Ivy thinks she is a wizard and can put spells on people. Bean tries to get Ivy to put a spell on Bean's older sister, Nancy. Bean wants the spell to make Nancy to embarrass herself in front of all her friends. 

Ivy & Bean go try to collect all the stuff they need for the spells. On the list were worms, dead frogs and lots of cool other stuff. But in the end, they see Nancy having a tough time and decide that a spell isn't such a good idea.
 
I liked this book because it seemed like real life. I have an older sister just like Bean does.  And sometimes I pull tricks on her just like Bean does to Nancy. But in the end, I don't really want my sister to be hurt, sad or upset and that is also what Bean decided. It was also fun because even though Ivy and Bean were very different they stayed good friends. 

BOOK NAME: The Day Joanie Frankenhauser Became a Boy
AUTHOR: Francess Lantz

This book is all about being yourself.  Joanie is a huge tomboy and moves to a new school.  The secretary at the new school typed her name as "John" instead of "Joanie".  So, she decides to roll with it, and live as boy at school and a girl at home because as she sees it boys have it easy.  As she goes along she realizes that boys don't have as easy of a life as she thought they did.

Back at her old school Joanie had a writing assignment and she wrote a super kid story.  She liked it so much that she writes a series of stories about her Super Kid.  She tries to keep them a secret, but the class bully named Zane gets a hold of them.  He uses the ideas from the stories to make up his own League of Super Dudes.  But when the Super Dude's pranks go too far, Joanie has to decide whether to reveal her secret or to keep pretending to be a boy.  Check out the book to see how she handles it.

I really liked this book because it has adventure and the story has things that I could relate to.  It's really about finding happiness with who you are and not judging people by what you think they are, but by their actions.

BOOK NAME: The Case of the Perfect Prank: A Jigsaw Jones Mystery
AUTHOR: James Preller



Jigsaw Jones is a kid detective. He is in second grade and he solves mysteries. He has older twin brothers and a friend named Joey who will eat anything, even ants and worms.

There are at least 23 books about Jigsaw and his mysteries. I've read two of them. This book is #23. In it, Jigsaw fools his friend Mila with a whoopee cushion, so she wants to get even. So Mila and her friend, Danika, ask Jigsaw to look for Danika's lost cat. They tell him that the cat was cat-napped, but really Danika doesn't even have a cat. That's the perfect prank!

Jigsaw gathers clues at the pet store, from Danika and from his older sister to solve the mystery. I won't tell you anymore because I don't want to give it all away. I like the book a lot because the prank is pretty hard to figure out, but Jigsaw is really smart and he finds out what happened. My favorite part of the book is the two last chapters when Jigsaw puts the pieces together. I give this book a four out of five because I've never read a book that's five out of five.