Henry Winkler is an old friend of mine. Well, not really, but it feels like he is! I love his approach in this book. We were reading it as a read aloud amidst the time we do our structure projects so my students really got a kick out of Hanks. I also felt like it really reaches out and grabs kids because so many kids feel like school isn't easy for them, like it isn't easy for Hank. There were lots of laughs when we read this aloud. We actually ended up moving to at home learning part way through and one of the concerns my students had was how we would finish the book. Of course, we did. There's always time for a great read-aloud like this! As we were reading it, the Hank Zipzer books started being taken off the shelf by quite a few kids. Although I think it's good to read the first one first, you don't have to read the books in order and they're all hilarious. We found lots of interesting connections to
Third Grade Angels and
Frindle while reading this one.
Goodreads says:
Inspired by the true life experiences of Henry Winkler, whose undiagnosed dyslexia made him a classic childhood underachiever, the Hank Zipzer series is about the high-spirited and funny adventures of a boy with learning differences.
It's science project time in Ms. Adolf's class. This is good news and bad news for Hank-he loves science, but he hates the report part. So Hank turns to TV to take his mind off things. But when the program directory scrolls by too quickly for Hank to know what's on, he decides to take apart the cable box to try to slow down the crawl. Great! Now Hank has found the perfect science project! But what he wasn't counting on was his sister's pet iguana laying eighteen eggs in the disassembled cable box. How is Hank going to get out of this one?
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