Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Growing Up (Charlie Joe Jackson #6)

by Tommy Greenwald (Author) Jp Coovert (Illustrator)

Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Growing Up (Charlie Joe Jackson #6)
Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
This hilarious final installment in the Charlie Joe Jackson series written by Tommy Greenwald and illustrated by J. P. Coovert is infused with nostalgia and just the right amount of chaos. Yes! Graduation day is finally here! Charlie Joe has been waiting for this moment his entire middle school career. This might even be the best day of his life. No more teachers! No more books! Just make it through the ceremony and he's free. But suddenly things around him are starting to change. Words like responsibility and college prep keep popping out of his friend's mouths. What happened to words like fun and pool party? And come to think of it, doesn't high school bring more teachers and more books? Maybe this whole growing up thing isn't such a good idea after all. Actually being a kid is pretty darn fun! Surely Charlie Joe can figure out a way to put the brakes on growing up-and fast! With laugh-out-loud humor and quirky illustrations, this book is perfect for reluctant readers. 
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Praise for the Charlie Joe Jackson series:

Snappy, sarcastic middle-school humor lifts this overlong book, and the spot drawings and occasional very short pithy paragraphs are a pleasant surprise. No middle schooler wants to face a month at summer enrichment camp, but many will enjoy watching Charlie Joe work harder than he has ever worked before to avoid it. —Kirkus Reviews on Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Extra Credit

Reluctant readers . . . are the target audience here. All in all it's a great little book . . . . This is definitely the book to hand those The Strange Case of Origami Yoda fans out there who are looking for more, and it'll probably satisfy non-non-readers as well. —School Library Journal on Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading

[S]lackers everywhere have a new, likable hero in Charlie Joe Jackson. —Kirkus Reviews on Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading

Tommy Greenwald

Tommy Greenwald has enjoyed reading all his life, which is why he's appalled that his kids Charlie, Joe and Jack, would prefer getting a dental check-up to checking out a book. After years of pleading, threatening, and bribing, Tommy finally decided the only way to get his kids to read was to write a book about how to get out of reading. The Charlie Joe Jackson series is the result. And they read it! (So they say.) The Executive Creative Director at SPOTCO, an entertainment advertising agency in New York City, Tommy lives in Connecticut with his wife, Cathy; his non-reading sons, Charlie, Joe and Jack; and his dogs, Moose and Coco.

Illustrated by J.P. COOVERT.

Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781250158352
Lexile Measure
630
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Square Fish
Publication date
August 14, 2018
Series
Charlie Joe Jackson
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV035000 - Juvenile Fiction | School & Education
JUV039020 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Adolescence
Library of Congress categories
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