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Excellent Excuses [and Other Good Stuff] (2011)

by Liz Pichon(Favorite Author)

4.69 of 5 Votes: 9

ISBN

1407124404 (ISBN13: 9781407124407)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Scholastic

series

Tom Gates

review 1: This book was so good! I was reading it and I was not paying attention to the page numbers,then I looked up at what page I was on and I was on pg.185. The main characters were Tom Gates, a boy who love to draw and he is in his own band he also loves carman wafers ,and Derek Fingles,Toms best friend who is also in Toms band. My favourite part is when Tom makes the excellent excuses top 10! I would recommend this book to people who like to draw and people who like chapter books with doodles on they pages. That is why I think this is the best book ever!
review 2: Much like the "Wimpy Kid" books, this series is very similar except written at a bit of an easier level; it has much more drawing and graphically appealing that in some ways it could be called a graphic n... moreovel, though don't get me wrong it has no comic bubbles or panels and is a chapter book. It is also decidedly British and hasn't been Americanized; in fact, at the end of the book "Tom" has created a visual and funny glossary which defines a lot of the British-isms for the reader. I haven't read the first book and it didn't hamper my understanding of this one at all but I think I may have had an extra fondness for the characters if I had. Extremely humorous in the British humour way but with no real plot, just the average (well, not-so-average) day-to-day doings of a middle school boy, his friend, annoying older sister and the class bully. Fun read will appeal to reluctant readers and those who like to draw. less

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