Fourth Grade Rats Paperback – August 1, 2012

My students are OBSESSED with this series. A little too much "romance" for elementary, but a must read for fourth grade!

I read this book to my third graders at the end of the year. I love it!

Our church provides one book for each student in a local elementary school. Several books were priced great and looked interesting so that I could buy quite a few.

The book was okay bought for my 8 year old son, he needed a break from the I survived series with something light hearted and fun, it took some time for him to start enjoying the book. I thought the story and language had an odd flow, the dialogue was strange and confusing at times. I think it had an interesting idea but just didn’t work. I also didn’t like how it used improper grammar and language in the set up of dialogue, I get that it’s trying to sound like kids are talking to each other, it bugged me. It had a good lesson, to be yourself and not care what others think of you, so I might be delving too deep into my criticism but I’ve read a lot of crap with my son and I felt I needed to express this.

My husband teaches English and is always ahead of the book trend curve. He always gifts our kids a book the last day of summer to be encouraging. This year he chose this book for our daughter going into fourth grade. It made her giggle reading the title and she dove right into reading it. She says it’s an easy read and has kept her interest. I’d recommend for anyone looking for a similar gift for their kids.

Keep my boy entertained, great read for the beginning of the 4th grade school year.

Good book.

Was a great read for new to area 4th grader's first day of school.