  | My school stinks! Author: Scharnhorst, Becky | |
| Price: $22.58 | ||
Summary:
A back-to-school story told through journal entries about a boy who finds himself at a new school where the other students are REAL animals.
| Illustrator: | Patton, Julia |
| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: LG Reading Level: 3.00 Points: .5 Quiz: 516147 |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (06/01/21)
Booklist (06/01/21)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 06/01/2021 Wildwood Elementary really lives up to its name—at least, if you credit the claims a reluctant new student makes in his diary that all of his teachers and classmates are animals. His parents are understandably skeptical, but in the comically disheveled illustrations, Patton, at least, takes him at his word, setting the unhappy, moon-faced lad amid creatures like Charlie, a hyperactive crocodile who nips the hand that offers him a cupcake; George, an ape who picks through his hair looking for bugs; and Betsy, a beaver who chews on his pencils. Savvy readers will see through his complaints to the underlying fact that these are actually efforts to make him feel welcome, and he changes his tune from the early “Reasons Why I Hate Wildwood” to a list of “Things I Love about Wildwood,” just before eagerly dragging his shocked-looking parents into the school’s multispecies open house. Along with being a good choice for children anxious about their own upcoming “first day,” this offers a nifty exercise in reading between the lines. - Copyright 2021 Booklist.
