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A review by ricksilva
Junie B., First Grader: Cheater Pants by Denise Brunkus, Barbara Park
3.0
Junie B. copies another student's homework and gets caught red-handed at it.
This was a good treatment of the issue of cheating for elementary school children. The plot wandered a bit, but got re-focused toward the end, and the responses of the adults in the story were firm, but gentle.
There was an interesting side-plot involving a lesson on poems, which included some cute examples of cinquains, along with a good friendship-affirming moment for Junie B.
There weren't as many laugh-out-loud jokes (although there was one really good one), as in some other installments in this series, and everything followed a pretty predictable path.
My son enjoyed reading this, but he's pretty much outgrown this series, so this is probably the last of them that we'll read.
This was a good treatment of the issue of cheating for elementary school children. The plot wandered a bit, but got re-focused toward the end, and the responses of the adults in the story were firm, but gentle.
There was an interesting side-plot involving a lesson on poems, which included some cute examples of cinquains, along with a good friendship-affirming moment for Junie B.
There weren't as many laugh-out-loud jokes (although there was one really good one), as in some other installments in this series, and everything followed a pretty predictable path.
My son enjoyed reading this, but he's pretty much outgrown this series, so this is probably the last of them that we'll read.