Horrible Harry and the Mud Gremlins
Gr. 2-4. This simple chapter book, fourteenth in the series about Horrible Harry, is one of the best, with a lively sense of the third-grade classroom and playground and with a true conflict that builds to a tense climax. Horrible Harry is wearing a necklace to school with a mini-microscope, and he tells his friends they can use it at recess to see a secret kingdom of mushrooms. But to do that, they have to break a school rule and go under the playground fence into the mud. Are they going to fib to their nice teacher? Should they own up? Using a light touch, Kline weaves in the characters' anger and remorse; she also makes science a fun part of the story, including some fascinating facts about horrible, slimy fungi, what they look like, and where to find them--in the mud and at the lunch table.Hazel RochmanCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.