I Funny: A Middle School Story by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein
by Sam Arnold-Boyd on Feb.09, 2014, under Bullying, Humorous, Illustrated, Real life, Sam's Reviews
Who would like tho book? Boys or girls, grades 4 to 7, who like puns and jokes that make you laugh in spite of yourself.
The goods on this book: Jamie Grimm has a tough life. He’s in middle school, he’s in a wheelchair, he lives with a new family in a new city, and his new brother is the biggest and meanest bully in his middle school. How does he handle it all? By telling jokes. Really lame jokes, such as the one about what the teacher said during roll call one day:
“Are you chewing gum, young man?”
“No, I’m Jamie Grimm.”
Jamie, it turns out, has a talent for telling jokes and an obsession with learning everything having to do with comedy. He also has two geeky friends, an uncle who combines yo-yoing with cooking, and a couple of girls who show an interest in him. When Jamie secretly enters a local comedy contest, the pressure is on to be funny. Throughout this book, the jokes come fast and furiously, both in the text and in the entertaining drawings. It is very difficult to argue with Jamie’s self-assessment: “I funny.”
The details: 303 pages; 2012 Review by Samrarian
