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Let me guess: does the main character dislike school? Or just generally think that lots of things are "dumb?" Or dislikes authority? It seems that there is a kind of genre of books like this. I just read one to my daughter, it was called "Mr Hynde is Out of His Mind." I don't even know where we got this book. I read her the whole book and she thought parts of it were funny, but some things I censored (such as the main character calling a good student a "brown noser"--there's an idiom I don't want to explain to my six-year-old!). There was some bad grammar too. Junie B. Jones also has bad grammar, and I can remember correcting the grammar as I read it aloud. I think maybe these kind of books are good for kids who don't like school or don't like reading (I'm all for anything that gets kids reading), but my daughter loves school and she loves reading. We discussed the main character's bad attitude and how she and I don't feel that way about things. I think this book is quietly going in the garbage soon.
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