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Synopsis
Dunderheads, unite! A tyrannical teacher gets her just due in a delightfully subversive, outrageously funny tale by Newbery Medal winner Paul Fleischman.
Miss Breakbone hates kids. Especially the time-squandering, mindwandering, doodling, dozing dunderheads in her class. But when she confiscates Junkyard’s crucial find, she finally goes too far. Enter Wheels (and his souped-up bike with forty-eight extra gears), Pencil (who can draw anything from memory), Spider (look up and you’ll find him), and their fellow misfits in a spectacular display of teamwork aimed at teaching Miss Breakbone a lesson she won’t soon forget. From the incomparable Paul Fleischman comes a winning cast of underdogs — and one of the most terrifying teachers you’ll ever meet — brought to vivid life in David Roberts’s quirky, hilarious illustrations.
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Just the right note of dastardly charm. Schoolchildren will adore this story of pupil revenge.
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
--School Library Journal (starred review) The setup is witty and subversive, and the book then springs into a classic caper plot, with each kid in the gang offering a bizarre skill.
--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review) Roberts caricatures the formidable teacher and the amiably wide-eyed kids with a witty, agile pen and judicious splashes of color, an excellent foil for Fleishman's terse and comical private eye send-up. With action galore, a villain foiled by clever kids, a laugh a minute, a profusion of illustrations with broad age appeal, and an easily read text, this is a winner.
--The Horn Book You can almost hear the Pink Panther theme thrumming in the background... A fun stick-it-to-teacher romp with no redeeming message but cleverness in spades.
--Booklist Deliciously outlandish, featuring an undercover caper complete with a hidden safe, grappling hooks made of paperclips, a classmate who just happens to be a hypnotist and a broken statuette with (real) emerald eyes.
--Kirkus Reviews Self-affirming. As a whole, the class is a bunch of 'twiddling, time-squandering, mind-wandering, doodling, dozing, don't knowing dunderheads.' Taken singly and placed to their best advantage the students are, of course, geniuses. The illustrations by David Roberts are hilarious scary and fabulously imagined.
--ForeWord Young gumshoes and budding secret agents will love the laughs and suspense... distinct personalities and unique talents of each student all but guarantee that this memorable pack will amuse both children and adults.
--Shelftalker blog You'll be hoping to see more of this strange but appealing crew.
--Cookie magazine The tone of this story is reminiscent of a hard-boiled detective novel, a wonderful stylistic quality....Miss Breakbone is a delicious villain, one that could have easily stepped out of a Road Dahl book.
--Heavy Medal: A Mock Newbery Blog (SLJ)
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What's in a name? Meet the Dunderheads, an unlikely band of kids with extraordinary hidden talents!
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- PublisherCandlewick Press,U.S.
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0763624985
- ISBN 13 9780763624989
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages54
- IllustratorRoberts David
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