The Sixth Grade Nickname Game
This quarter I read The Sixth Grade Nickname Game. This is about two boys in sixth grade who love to give people nicknames. Theses boys names are Wiley and Jeff. One of the other boys in their class Charles Rossie (AKA Snoopy) doesn't like his nickname Snoopy. Charles earned his nickname Snoopy because he is always snooping in other peoples business, but Charles still doesn't like it. So they make a bet that states if Wiley and Jeff can give a nick name to Mike Smith that doesn't have to do with him at all but still sticks, they have to give him a new nickname. They decide to call him Iceman.
Their new teacher is a huge physco football coach. He mixes his football coaching skills with teaching. This teachers name is Mr.Hughes or as the students call him Mr.Huge. In school Mr.Huge is like a maniac sprinting up and down the rows of desks gulping down gallon by gallon of Gatorade yelling "One hundred and ten percent men!", but a kid on Mr.Huge's football team says he's as slow as a snail at practice ever since he started teaching. Although the kids love their new teacher, all the other teachers don't appreciate Mr.Huge's enthusiasm.
This quarter I read The Sixth Grade Nickname Game. This is about two boys in sixth grade who love to give people nicknames. Theses boys names are Wiley and Jeff. One of the other boys in their class Charles Rossie (AKA Snoopy) doesn't like his nickname Snoopy. Charles earned his nickname Snoopy because he is always snooping in other peoples business, but Charles still doesn't like it. So they make a bet that states if Wiley and Jeff can give a nick name to Mike Smith that doesn't have to do with him at all but still sticks, they have to give him a new nickname. They decide to call him Iceman.
Their new teacher is a huge physco football coach. He mixes his football coaching skills with teaching. This teachers name is Mr.Hughes or as the students call him Mr.Huge. In school Mr.Huge is like a maniac sprinting up and down the rows of desks gulping down gallon by gallon of Gatorade yelling "One hundred and ten percent men!", but a kid on Mr.Huge's football team says he's as slow as a snail at practice ever since he started teaching. Although the kids love their new teacher, all the other teachers don't appreciate Mr.Huge's enthusiasm.
One day in the morning a new girl comes to Jeff and Wiley's class, and she is the strangest girl they had ever seen. The new girls name is Cassandra Levy, and she is very friendly even though she says "totally" in every sentence. Wiley and Jeff spend a majority of the book trying to find a nickname for her,but no matter what they tried nothing seemed to fit her personality.
While snooping in a stall in the bathroom, Snoopy over hears a conversation between their Principal Mr.Doncaster or Deer in head lights as Wiley and Jeff call him, and another teacher. Mr.Doncaster earned his nickname because of his always wide eyes that make him look like a deer in headlights. They were complaining about Mr.Huge, and about how he is really loud. Mr.Doncaster says if that if his students do poorly in the state reading assignment that he would have Mr.Huge fired. When Snoopy takes the news to the rest of the class they know that it's bad because Mr.Huge quit coaching football so he could focus on teaching, and if he gets fired he'll have no job at all. They decide they need to ace the state reading assignment if they want Mr.Huge to stay. And so that's how the Marathon of reading started. Will the class pass the reading assignment to save Mr.Huge? Will Snoopy get a new nickname? And Will Wiley and Jeff ever find a nickname for Cassandra? Read this enjoyable book by Gordon Korman to find out!
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