She read the entire thing in just a couple of days. The minute this book showed up on my doorstep, my nine-year-old daughter snatch it up and disappeared. YouTube | Blog | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Snapchat Thoughts: They were super cute and really made it a lot of fun! The illustrations really lifted this book to another level. It was a really short book but Jake developed really well over those pages. Jake was a delightful main character and his take on the world was really funny.
I quite liked all the craziness associated with the artsy school - it was one wild antic after another and I was thoroughly entertained throughout! This one ended up being a cute, quick story. He'll just have to go to the school anyway and fake it until he makes it! The problem is, I can never tell if she's serious or messing with me.At any rate, Jake is already in too deep. His older sister also goes to the school.though she isn't as much help as he had hoped. Now he's afraid that everyone will figure out his secret (that the amazing piano song he auditioned with is actually the only song he knows). Well, my plan of hoping that summer would never end and school would never start has failed.Jake just got into the Music and Art Academy for the gifted and talented, and his parents are overjoyed.
Ages 8 12.The May Reading Vlog (aka tier listing 30+ books) is up! Now that you know where this one ranks, click the link to check out the rest! The Written Review Knight's zippy b&w spot illustrations play up the story's gross-out humor as in a scene of laser-beam-wielding dolphins decapitating radioactive kangaroos during Jake's book report about an imaginary book and a supporting cast of quirky art-school types rounds out this offbeat novel, first in a planned series. Allen, Jake pushes the definition of artistic in order to "throw everybody off the scent of my fakeness," finding freedom (and a cover) in intentionally bizarre behavior such as trash sculpting or creating bands that don't play music. Under the very loose tutelage of free-spirited Mr. Jake's gifted older sister, Lisa, thrives at the academy, where students are encouraged to get creative through assignments like chewing a piece of gum for six hours, then writing a play about it. Jake, an African-American sixth grader, has a severe case of imposter syndrome after cheating and faking his way into the elite Music and Art Academy. Actor/comedian Robinson, Go the F**k to Sleep author Mansbach, and The Knight Life cartoonist Knight team up for a slightly edgy spoof of touchy-feely, experiential education in this heavily illustrated story.
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