by Gary D. Schmidt
It's hard being a seventh grader. I've got a crazy older sister who wants to be a hippie and a dad who wants me to be perfect so I don't ruin the family architecture business. I get along with my classmates but sometimes they want to kill me and then there are eighth grade bullies to deal with. There are two rats running around the walls of our classroom that I accidentally released from their cage. The Vietnam War is being fought and nobody can agree about that. My cross country coach keeps yelling at me to go faster.
Oh yeah, and my teacher Mrs. Baker, I can't figure out if she hates me or not. See I'm the only Presbyterian in my class, the rest of the kids are either Catholic or Jewish. She doesn't hate me because of my religious beliefs, she hates me because I'm only kid in class who doesn't leave early on Wednesdays to go to religious school. So she's stuck with me. Just me.
She has me reading Shakespeare, which I thought I would hate. But I don't. I kind of like it. . Shakespeare is actually helping me figure out life and that's good because like I said, being a seventh grader isn't easy. Read my book, I think you'll think my year as a seventh grader was pretty interesting.
Published: 2007
Genre: Historical Fiction
Locations: Classroom Library, School Library, Public Library, Amazon
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