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Diary of a Wimpy Kid
by Jeff Kinney
Perfect for high interest/low level readers. About a 2nd/3rd grade reading level but with a 6th-8th grade reading interest. A book that can pull a different audience in that may be turned off by romance, fantasy, and/or angsty books.
First in a series of five (as of November 2010)
Perhaps it's because I just read Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging but the humorous ridicule of the "unpopular" and the unending desire to be popular is getting annoying. That gotten out of the way, the author does capture that desire to be popular yet an eventual acceptance of self. The humor in this book does branch outside of ridicule of others (maybe 60% of the time) so it's nice that children are pulled in by what they know but then exposed to more diverse forms of humor.
First in a series of five (as of November 2010)
Perhaps it's because I just read Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging but the humorous ridicule of the "unpopular" and the unending desire to be popular is getting annoying. That gotten out of the way, the author does capture that desire to be popular yet an eventual acceptance of self. The humor in this book does branch outside of ridicule of others (maybe 60% of the time) so it's nice that children are pulled in by what they know but then exposed to more diverse forms of humor.