Zack Files 28: Tell a Lie and Your Butt Will Grow

LIke all the "Zack Files," this one is just tons of fun. I gave it to a fourth grader who resisted reading, and now I can't get him to give me my book back! Dan Greenburg has a wonderful ear for the way children think and talk. Well, how boys do, at any rate. I haven't found that girls get as big a kick out of it. But he creates preposterous situations and then resolves them, always with the sympathetic help (or, at least, noninterference) of the divorced Dad (what a surprise.).

My first grader loves the Zach Files series! He laughs out loud as I read to him. This was a great one for my son who has begun to have his share of little stretches of truth. He really enjoyed the story and learned a bit about the enjoyment of participating in a science fair too.