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Synopsis
“Never,” shrieked Miss Breakbone, “have I been asked to teach such a scraping together of fiddling, twiddling, time-squandering, mind-wandering, doodling, dozing, don’t-knowing DUNDERHEADS!” Miss Breakbone, the school mistress, hates kids. She shouts, she confiscates, she makes kids cry. But one day she goes too far. She confiscates the one-eyed cat that Junkyard is going to give his mum for her birthday. So the children pool their many weird and wonderful talents to break into Breakbone’s house and to get Junkyard’s cat back for him...
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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)
Book Description
What's in a name? Meet the Dunderheads, an unlikely band of kids with extraordinary hidden talents!
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- PublisherWalker
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1406322555
- ISBN 13 9781406322552
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages56
- IllustratorRoberts BA Hons In Fashion Design David
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