MiddleSchool Cool, Maiya Williams
MiddleSchool Cool, Maiya Williams
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Middle-School Cool

Author: Maiya Williams

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 7 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/11/2014


Synopsis

*Now available in paperback with a brand new title: Kaboom Academy!* 

“Graduates of Wayside School will fit right in at the decidedly unconventional Kaboom Academy.” —Kirkus Reviews
 
Forget everything you know about middle school while reading “this amusing and lighthearted story [that] pokes fun at traditional education, while celebrating nonconformity, individuality, and even oddity” (School Library Journal).
 
A new middle school has just opened in Horsemouth, New Hampshire: Kaboom Academy. It’s a place where cannons go off in the middle of school assemblies, pills contain actual information, and multiplication is made, er, real. (Read: You ever wonder what it would be like if there were two of you? How about four? How about eight? Well, you’re about to find out!) The school’s new students—and the Journalism 1A class in particular—can’t believe all the shenanigans that go on. Who’s really in charge of this groundbreaking academy for boys and girls who’ve fallen out of love with learning? And what does it mean to “blow up the model for middle school”?

 A 2015 Children's Choice 

About The Author

MAIYA WILLIAMS was editor and vice president of the Harvard Lampoon and a writer/producer for TV shows including Rugrats, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and Mad TV.  She is the author of a time travel trilogy that includes the critically acclaimed books The Golden Hour, Hour of the Cobra, and Hour of the Outlaw. She lives with her husband, three children, two dogs, two guinea pigs, and a variety of fish in Pacific Palisades, California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Chrissy

Kaboom Academy knows how to keep a kid interested -- at least, that's what people say. When the new school appears out of nowhere with crazy, offbeat ideas for how to educate young minds -- for example, books are absorbed through pills, which contain entire stories with just a single dose... and jus......more

Goodreads review by Chris

“The resounding ‘BOOM’ rocked the auditorium.” This is the way the new school, Kaboom Academy Middle School, signaled the end of class. There were no more irritating bells ringing, but a powerful blast from a cannon outside by the flagpole whenever a class ended, and a Chinese gong on the other sid......more

Goodreads review by Sandy

This book tells the story of a child who did not like to go to school when he first started junior high school because there are many people in school who bully him but later he has made many good friends because of the change of character. Certain position, and later because of the change of person......more

Goodreads review by Lisa

This is a clever, entertaining and strangely wise book that I almost didn't read because of the less than inspiring title and cover. Thankfully I didn't judge this book by the cover and found myself caught up in an imaginative story with an ending I could not predict. I listened to it as an audioboo......more

Goodreads review by Carlton

It was a pretty great book the most part was that it kept talking about peoples´ stories. The school was like a prisoner school. It was less people at the school it was 25 6th graders......more