Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar
June 30, 2008 — Mary Childs
Here’s another book from the 2008 Maud Hart Lovelace list and what a great story!
Scott is nervous about going into high school as a freshman. He and his friends have the usual problems with upperclassmen on those first few days of school. But even as Scott is adjusting to high school, his world takes on a new dimension when his parents tell him that his mother is having a baby in the spring! He’s kind of used to being the younger brother and the youngest kid, so what will this new creature do to his comfortable world?
Well, the combination of his school experiences and his still-embryonic sibling causes him to begin writing a survival manual for high school…and many other aspects of life. In fact, his writing skills lead him to joining the school newspaper, and other school activities in his quest to get the attention of Julia, who suddenly turned beautiful over the summer! Whatever he does in school has surprising results and usually no one is more surprised than Scott himself.
Very funny, very entertaining! Lots of life lessons from Scott’s survival manual and journal (NOT a diary), but really funny and reader-friendly!
