Lawn Boy
by:
Gary Paulsen (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385746861 (0385746865)
Publish date: June 12th 2007
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Humor,
Funny,
Academic,
School,
Realistic Fiction,
Juvenile,
Middle Grade,
Economics,
Chapter Books
Series: Tales to Tickle the Funnybone (#7)
A short book - less than 2 hours - this one had us laughing aloud. Told in the first person, the narrator receives a used riding lawn mower for his birthday at the beginning of the summer. What starts as a way to earn some extra money during vacation quickly snowballs into a hilarious romp with hi...
What is the one thing that excites the imagination of a 12-year-old more than anything else on the planet? It’s not sugary substances in colors and flavors found nowhere in nature? The diabetic pull on the tastebuds is lessening by this age. Neither is it yet the delights of the opposite sex? Le...
His grandmother gives him an old lawn mower and, before he knows it, he is Lawn Boy. A stockbroker begins to manage his money and suddenly Lawn Boy is rich.With a little more push, this could have been a wildly funny story. I found it so-so.