Trouble Magnet (George Brown, Class Clown Series #2)

by Nancy Krulik, Aaron Blecha (Illustrator)

Overview

The annual talent show at Shirley S. Sugarman Elementary School is in just a few weeks, and George signs up to be a stagehand. He is determined to do a good job because the new, improved George is responsible and helpful and glad to pitch in. So is comic mayhem coming? Oh yeah, absolutely! But leave it to Nancy Krulik to devise an unexpected way for disaster to strike and bring down the curtain.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780448453682
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	07/08/2010
Series:	George Brown, Class Clown Series , #2
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	1,104,722
Product dimensions:	7.66(w) x 5.20(h) x 0.29(d)
Lexile:	520L (what's this?)
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

Nancy Krulik is the author of many media-related books for young adults, including The New York Times best-seller Leonardo DiCaprio for Archway.

Editorial Reviews

Gr 2–4—George Brown suffers from an unusual malady: burps get him into major trouble. After each enormous belch, the fourth grader loses control of his body and ends up involved in wild antics that his classmates find hilarious but that infuriate adults. New at his school, George tries his hardest to control the burps to avoid being labeled the class clown, but disaster strikes when he's giving an oral report with a friend and again while he's performing with the class bully's band at the school talent show. Krulik has a good feel for the humor that appeals to beginning-chapter-book readers, and Blecha's black-and-white illustrations on nearly every spread expand on the child's zany behavior. Though George hasn't solved his problem by the end of book, he has learned a little about speaking up for himself and making amends for his actions. Give this to fans of Captain Underpants and Horrid Henry.—Jackie Partch, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR

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