I loved this book. It was fun to read! This book was about a 5th grade class who were suppose to get married (pretend) and go out west

Wagon Train 911 was a very good book. It is about this class who is travelling back to old times. They are taking a journey like the Oregon Trail. They have to buy food and wear heavy clothing. Do they make it?

Wagon Train 911 is about a girl named Dinah whos class reenacts the Oregon Trail. The boys have to "marry" the girls and everything! Will this wagon train survive? Read Wagon Train 911 to find out!

Setting - this story takes place in the woods of Wisconsin during the winter. Character - the main character is Hobie Hanson. At the beginning Hobie is shy, very organized and doesn't know how to have fun. At the end he has learned how to have fun and not be so shy. Summary - Class 4B earned a trip to Outdoor Ed where Hobie got homesick. He tried to call his parents late one night, but bumped into Miss Ivanavitch in the dark. She told him he couldn't call because his father was in the hospital. Hobie stays and changes his attitude and turns out to have a great time! At the end he had fun because he tried new things and wasn't so shy. A fourth grader at Springdale Elementary

I'm an adult but I still enjoy kids' books. This book is excellent and very funny for children. Perfect for reading to kids in class. Kids will love it!

Hobie is one of my favorite characters of all time. I am 22 and haved loved this book since I was a little kid. My copy is very stained from being dropped in the water so many times while I was reading in the tub. No matter what your age, you must read this book. Absolutely classic entertainment--a great book to read out loud to your kids on a trip, or whenever. I LOVE THIS BOOK!!! Much better than 13 Ways to Sink a Sub, Gilson's more well-known book.

I laughed my head off when I read this book! The Hobie books are so funny and awesome! He and his soccer team have a game but Hobie is on thin ice with his dad but he cannot stay out of trouble! He doesn't think before he acts!

This story was about a family from Vietnam and Harvey Trumble's family is trying to help them figure their way around America to see how they pay their bills. Harvey is trying to help the family's son, Tuan Nguyen, Tuan is going to school with Harvey and he is trying to help him find his way through it. Harvey showed Tuan how to write letters speck English, and shows him how to eat at lunch. Until the end of the book, Tuan is now able to do all that things that Harvey can do. Therefore, whatever Harvey does or wherever he goes' Tuan is always behind him.

When Tuan Nguyen and his family move from Vietnam to America, Harvey Trumble knows that him and Tuan will be best friends! Harvey teaches Tuan english, and how to use a fork, and things are going great, untill Harvey makes a choice for the worse. They get caught TPing the pig statue by the police. Tuan starts to think that maybe being Harvey's friend isn't a very good idea, and he befriends Quint, Harvey's enimey. I would tell you more, but i think you should read the book. I would reccomend it to kids who like books about friendship! Happy reading!
-Caitlin

-Cait

Do you like books about young people meeting other people from other countries? Reading Jamie Gilson Hello, My Name Is Scrambled Eggs will help you do just that. The main character, Harvey, and his family had to bring a family from another country in their home. The family that had to live with Harvey and his family were a family from Vietnam. He was so happy to have someone of his own age living with him. Harvey had to bring him to his school, and there the boy would have to go to school everyday. The boy becomes a good friend with Harvey. Harvey would help the boy speak better English. What I enjoyed about the book was when Harvey would teach the boy about English on the computer. Another part of the book that I enjoyed was when Harvey started to become better friends with the boy and his family. I think someone should read this book if someone was interested in seeing how it is like to have someone from another country living with him or her and what they were going through. I also believe that if someone was to being someone into his or her home, that person should participate in the family's beliefs. The person should also participate in activities that the family enjoys. Harvey helped the boy very much to understand the English language. The boy would also participate in the activities that the Harvey's family had done with him. The boy liked where he lived as well as Harvey having a new friend living with him. I would also let someone from another country live with my family and I do understand what it would be like to live in a different place.

I think that this book was okay. I mean it was good but i think it was a bit short. The author could of wrote a lot more. When I finished the book I was surprised that it was the end. Although it was really humorous. I would recommened this book for younger children because it's an easy book to understand and it's really short.

My son read this book at the beginning of this school year (5th grade). He struggles with reading and spelling. He so totally identified with the main character, Sam, that he labeled himself dumb, stupid and learning disabled. This is not a triumphant story. This is a tragic story. The protagonist does not feel he has overcome or mastered his learning disablity. Instead, he feels worn out and akins his small victory to having swum a great distance, only to realize that he must do it again and again. I believe that there is a political agenda at work here. Masked behind an attitude of sympathy is the deeper message that children should equate special education with learning disablities. Furthermore, it excuses the classroom teacher from having to deal with student difficulties by making it not only okay, but acceptable BY THE STUDENTS to send children from the room to another, "special" teacher. Basically, this leaves the gifted and talented in the main classroom and separates the "normal" from the "not normal". This book is subversive and an insult. It should not be in the classroom. It gives children access to a vocabulary that they cannot possibly fully comprehend (nor, I suspect, does its author). It provides students with tools to label themselves, thereby easing the burden of the school systems. Proponets of this book can only have the political and monetary protection of the institution in mind when promoting it for classroom reading. While seemingly innocent on the surface, a critical reader will see beyond the surface to the deeper meaning and hidden agenda. Of course, fifth graders aren't critical readers, they are victims of school politics.

I agree with everything the review below stated about how this book is triumphant and affirming of the main character. Furthermore, it is affirming of all of the main characters. Everyone, from Mrs. Glass, who learns not to sell herself short as a working woman; to Alicia, who learns that although "book smarts" come easy to her, she will have to work hard to develop her "people skills"; to Sam, who learns to value his mathmatical abilities, and stop considering himself as stupid because he has difficulties with reading.

I would like to take issue with the reviewer who criticized the book because Sam claims that his small reading victory is comparable to swimming a great distance. Why is that statement so offensive? In my mind any educational process, if you're really trying to learn and not simply going through the motions, feels exactly like that. I've always been a good student, but that doesn't mean that I didn't have to work hard to learn new things. That feeling of exhaustion and pride that you've really concentrated your efforts to learn something new shouldn't be a source of shame, it should be a source of pride.

I first read this book with my father when I was seven. I am now 23 and have re-read it many times. It deals with serious issues in a clever and funny way. I think most kids can relate to this story on some level. Everyone has felt like they are behind, or unable to follow a class. Everyone knows what its like to not fit in. Many people know what it's like to be the new kid in school. I had a lot of problems in school for my first three years. I didn't have a learning dissability, I just had trouble focusing. Consequently, I was often behind in my classwork and felt ashamed and slightly outcast. Finally, my parents realized I needed a more creative type of education and enrolled me in an experimental school. I excelled and proceeded to a brilliant academic career. I think this book suggests, not that students with different learning needs be sent to "special classrooms", but that their problems may result from a failed approach in the classroom. I think different kids, just like adults, need to be stimulated in different ways in order to absorb information. Sam's regular teachers failed to give him the skills and confidence he needed. Sam taking a few out of class tests dosen't mean he will spend time being in a "special" environment. It means he had someone help him in a new and creative way. It also gave him the confidence to believe in himself. This book is a total triumph. He starts out feeling like a friendless loser. By the end of the book Sam has two great friends, is begining to believe that he is smart, starts to see the skills he took for granted such as his math abilities, learns responsibility and that adults trust him. What isn't triumphant about that?