Just the right note of dastardly charm. Schoolchildren will adore
this story of pupil revenge.
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A celebration of multiple intelligences, teamwork, and kid
power.
—School Library Journal (starred review)
The setup is witty and subversive, and the book then springs into a
classic caper plot, with each kid in the gang offering a bizarre
skill.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review)
Roberts caricatures the formidable teacher and the amiably
wide-eyed kids with a witty, agile pen and judicious splashes of
color, an excellent foil for Fleishman’s terse and comical private
eye send-up. With action galore, a villain foiled by clever kids, a
laugh a minute, a profusion of illustrations with broad age appeal,
and an easily read text, this is a winner.
—The Horn Book
You can almost hear the Pink Panther theme thrumming in the
background... A fun stick-it-to-teacher romp with no redeeming
message but cleverness in spades.
—Booklist
Deliciously outlandish, featuring an undercover caper complete with
a hidden safe, grappling hooks made of paperclips, a classmate who
just happens to be a hypnotist and a broken statuette with (real)
emerald eyes.
—Kirkus Reviews
Self-affirming. As a whole, the class is a bunch of ‘twiddling,
time-squandering, mind-wandering, doodling, dozing, don’t knowing
dunderheads.’ Taken singly and placed to their best advantage the
students are, of course, geniuses. The illustrations by David
Roberts are hilarious scary and fabulously imagined.
—ForeWord
Young gumshoes and budding secret agents will love the laughs and
suspense… distinct personalities and unique talents of each student
all but guarantee that this memorable pack will amuse both children
and adults.
—Shelftalker blog
You’ll be hoping to see more of this strange but appealing
crew.
—Cookie magazine
The tone of this story is reminiscent of a hard-boiled detective
novel, a wonderful stylistic quality….Miss Breakbone is a delicious
villain, one that could have easily stepped out of a Road Dahl
book.
—Heavy Medal: A Mock Newbery Blog (SLJ)
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