Mr. Bambuckle: Rule the School
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
The perfect book for middle school boys and readers of Sideways Stories from Wayside School and My Weird School! Mr. Bambuckle: Rule the School is the perfect gift for preteen boys and chapter book for kids 9-12.
The class in room 12B has a new teacher, one who's a little wacky and knows how to make learning fun! But not everybody agrees with his unique teaching methods...
There's never been a new teacher like Mr. Bambuckle. Who else rides a unicycle while flipping bacon in a pan and wearing a dazzling blue suit? Magic tricks aside, Mr. Bambuckle is kind of the best. He gets to know each and every one of his students, and makes learning exciting and fun!
But Principal Sternblast is not impressed with Mr. Bambuckle's teaching methods, and is determined to get rid of him...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Originally released in Australia, this neatly crafted schoolroom tale jump-starts the Mr. Bambuckle series with gusto, introducing an original and credible cast of young characters and an ingenious, perspicacious adult protagonist. Entering their classroom, the students in 12B find their new teacher, dapper Mr. Bambuckle, balancing on a unicycle on his desk while singing what he explains is "a rare Mongolian welcome song." The classmates relish the good-natured newcomer's adroit outwitting of the stodgy principal and creative reinvention of rules: he insists they yell out questions rather than raise their hands, retrieve their cellphones from "wherever you're hiding them" to create new apps, and "come up with a quite ridiculous use for a bicycle." Harris balances outlandish classroom antics with students' heartfelt first-person stories, which reveal their fears, frustrations, and triumphs and their growing self-confidence, thanks to the all-knowing teacher. Hart's boisterous black-and-white cartoons help move the story to a mischievous ending that leaves readers hanging as the class bully in a sly tweak of circumstance is poised to emerge a hero in the cast's second outing, Class 12B Fights Back, due out simultaneously. Ages 8 12.
