SCHOOLING AROUND SERIES 2008-2009
A very funny series about a very unusual school
A very funny series about a very unusual school
Schooling Around is a set of four novels chronicling the amazing goings on at Northwest Southeast Central School. Imagine a novel-length treatment of one of the short stories from the JUST! series and you’re getting warm. Imagine one of the BUM trilogy novels without the bums … and you’re getting even warmer. Imagine a funny, charming and exciting novel set in a most unusual school … well, you don’t have to imagine it because Schooling Around is already here! Sure to appeal to both confident and emerging readers of all ages, they are also ideal for both parents and classroom teachers to read aloud.
“The novel is thoroughly entertaining and written in a playful, breezy style that is free from tweeness and moralising. The characters are vivid and likeable, and the child narrator’s voice (often the hardest for an adult author to get right) is unaffected and convincing. Highly recommended for ages 7 and up.”
“Pencil of Doom is characteristically funny, uncondescending and a great read—even for adults.”
“This may be the funniest children’s book I have ever read. Reading it (and the other Schooling Around books) to my 5th grade son has been one of the highlights of my parenting life.”
“A comical view of teachers and students in a fun mix of the middle grade realism of friendship and school life with the kind of unlikely imaginary adventures that middle-graders love.”
Treasure Fever!
The first book in the series. Published in 2008
What’s the Story?
There’s a rumour that there’s buried treasure somewhere in the grounds of Northwest Southeast Central School! And once the secret gets out, the race is on to find it – even if it means digging up the whole school … but who will get there first?
Pencil of Doom
The second book in the series. Published in 2008
What’s the Story?
When Henry McThrottle tells his fellow students at Northwest Southeast Central School that his pencil is trying to kill him they accuse him of having an overactive imagination. But if that’s the case, then why is his pencil still trying to kill him?
Mascot Madness
The third book in the series. Published in 2009
What’s the Story?
When Mr Brainfright dresses up in a banana costume to take on the role of school mascot, it looks like Northwest Southeast Central School might beat the bad sports of Northwest West West Academy for the first time ever. But then Mr Brainfright begins to think he really is a banana…
Robot Riot
The fourth book in the series. Published in 2009
What’s the Story?
What do Henry and his friends at Northwest South East Central School do when they become convinced that the new girl is an evil robot with plans to destroy them all? They get school genius, Grant Gadget, to build an evil-robot-fighting robot, of course. What could possibly go wrong? Well, quite a lot, actually…
