Friday, November 11, 2011

I dare you NOT to read this

Hopefully you'll get the irony in Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading by Tommy Greenwald. What lengths would you go to NOT to read all the way through middle school? (I guess that's a trick question, since you're reading this, right?) Charlie Joe thought he had it figured out: he could pay one of his buddies with ice cream sandwiches to read Charlie Joe's assignments and then give him a quickie summary. And it worked!...for a while, and then he got caught. But now the big "Position Paper" is coming up, so Charlie Joe has to come up with a new plan. He'll let you in on his ideas, the school cliques and crushes, and typical middle school thinking; sprinkled throughout the book are Charlie Joe's Tips, such as "It's easy to convince others that you do in fact read, even if do in fact don't. (Use the word therefore a lot.)" I dare you NOT to read this, and I double dare you NOT to laugh. :)

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