101 Ways to Bug Your Friends and Enemies

by Lee Wardlaw

Overview

The fun, wacky series is back and middle schoolers will love the third zany installment!

Steve "Sneeze" Wyatt is back and muddling through typical middle school experiences in an entirely atypical way. Between dodging the meathead golf team bully and puzzling out why girls have him and his friends acting so odd, everyone struggles through the throes of friendship and first love with a distinctly Cyrano de Bergerac spin. With a hilarious ensemble cast, plenty of zingy banter, and just the right amount of gross-outs, this latest in the 101 Ways series delivers exactly what fans want, and is sure to earn new ones too.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780142419496
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	09/01/2011
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	4.86(w) x 7.82(h) x 0.78(d)
Lexile:	600L (what's this?)
Age Range:	10 - 12 Years

About the Author

Lee Wardlaw (www.leewardlaw.com) lives in Santa Barbara, California. Her 101 Ways to Bug Your Teacher was an IRA-CBC Children's Choice and earned many other state awards and nominations.

Editorial Reviews

With a unique cast of characters (including supportive parents) and plenty of conflict and humor, this is a good choice for reluctant readers.” — School Library Journal

“This offers up an appealing protagonist, . . . diverse characters, as well as a nice blend of humor and sympathy. An entertaining read.” — Booklist

From the Publisher

This offers up an appealing protagonist, . . . diverse characters, as well as a nice blend of humor and sympathy. An entertaining read.

Booklist

Gr 6–8—Steve "Sneeze" Wyatt, eighth grader and aspiring inventor, is having one heck of a year. Now that he's taking a few classes at the high school, things are becoming very complicated with friends and enemies alike: he's in love with Hayley, who, in turn, is in love with his high-school friend Cullen; he and best friend Hector (aka "Hiccup") are having spats; and a varsity golfer is bullying him. On top of that, his Nice Alarm was rejected at the Invention Convention®, which has put a damper on his ambition, and his hapkido class is interfering with his job at Gadabout Golf, which he loves. With a unique cast of characters (including supportive parents) and plenty of conflict and humor, this is a good choice for reluctant readers, including those who haven't read the first two books.—Laurie Slagenwhite Walters, Peachtree Montessori International, Ann Arbor, MI

School Library Journal

In the third in the 101 Ways to Bug series, a group of middle-schoolers encounters a bullying high-school golf-team member and a series of first-love misadventures.

"Sneeze" Wyatt, who is unbecomingly plagued by serious hay fever, has just returned from a summer-long vacation to discover that: a) while he once merely admired his friend Hayley, now he loves her; b) she has a severe crush on a hunky new Hawaiian member of the high-school golf team, Cullen—who doesn't know she exists; c) Sneezes's best friend Hiccup—who is wracked by hiccups when stressed—loves martial-arts star Joonbi; and, d) Joonbi seems to truly adore Sneeze. Sneeze, tapping into a Cyrano de Bergerac concept, begins to writee-mails to Hayley, supposedly from Cullen, a plan sure to eventually fail. Fortunately, the dialogue that constitutes most of the narrative and drives the plot is largely believable. Less expedient is the lack of significant character development and the numerous references to events that occurred in the two previous volumes in the series. Readers that come upon this work first will find many of the allusions mystifying and might need a score card to keep track of thenumerous walk-on characters.

With a mildly humorous presentation and the all-too-familiar concept of young teens exploring unrequited love, this average effort joins a crowded field. (Fiction. 9-12)

Kirkus Reviews