Niagara Falls, Or Does It? #1 /
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TextSeries: Hank Zipzer ; 1Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap, 2004Description: 144 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780448431628 :Genre/Form: Children's and Teenage: School Stories | Children's / Teenage fiction: School stories | Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories | Children's / Teenage: Social issues | Children's / Teenage general interest: Humour & jokes | Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Disability & special needs | Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction | Children's / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories | Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Friends & friendship issues Summary: Fourth-graders Hank, Ashley, and Frankie are excitedly preparing for a magic show at the Rock 'N Bowl when Hank's creative alternative to an English essay lands him in detention and grounded the week of the show. Inspired by the true life experiences of Henry Winkler, whose undiagnosed dyslexia made him a classic childhood underachiever, the Hank Zipzer series is about the high-spirited and funny adventures of a boy with learning differences. It's science project time in Ms. Adolf's class. This is good news and bad news for Hank-he loves science, but he hates the report part. So Hank turns to TV to take his mind off things. But when the program directory scrolls by too quickly for Hank to know what's on, he decides to take apart the cable box to try to slow down the crawl. Great! Now Hank has found the perfect science project! But what he wasn't counting on was his sister's pet iguana laying eighteen eggs in the disassembled cable box. How is Hank going to get out of this one? Illustrated by Carol Heyer.
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Fourth-graders Hank, Ashley, and Frankie are excitedly preparing for a magic show at the Rock 'N Bowl when Hank's creative alternative to an English essay lands him in detention and grounded the week of the show. Inspired by the true life experiences of Henry Winkler, whose undiagnosed dyslexia made him a classic childhood underachiever, the Hank Zipzer series is about the high-spirited and funny adventures of a boy with learning differences. It's science project time in Ms. Adolf's class. This is good news and bad news for Hank-he loves science, but he hates the report part. So Hank turns to TV to take his mind off things. But when the program directory scrolls by too quickly for Hank to know what's on, he decides to take apart the cable box to try to slow down the crawl. Great! Now Hank has found the perfect science project! But what he wasn't counting on was his sister's pet iguana laying eighteen eggs in the disassembled cable box. How is Hank going to get out of this one? Illustrated by Carol Heyer.
11 - US school grade range: From 3 To 7 ; 17 - Interest age, years: From 8 To 12