The book jacket shows a police file with photos of the four protagonists, a group of students who never would have chosen to be friends but who find themselves seated at the same table in Miss Rasmussen's fifth grade class. Readers are hooked from the beginning by the involvement of the police as the story unravels from interviews with the students, their parents, and teacher. One student, Brenton has found a way to harness the Internet to do his homework and soon all four gather daily at his house to use the homework machine despite their individual differences and the tensions among the four. Fun and fast to read, this one should hold lots of kid appeal.
Grades 4-6
Sunday, April 22, 2007
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At first I thought that the interview format would be too limiting, but the author keeps the voices of the geek, the teacher's pet, the slacker, the class clown and assorted adults, distinct and clear.
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