Reader’s Review: Middle School Cool

Most middle school students dream of days off of school – not the student’s of Kaboom Middle School. A brand new school 20 miles from Horsemouth, New Hampshire has opened up.  Desperate parents find flyers promising information, and more importantly, refreshments, at an informational meeting. Though the headmaster’s teeth and mixed up speech seem strange, there’s no other choice. By the time the last paper cup was thrown away 55 students were on the list – destined for some educationology (Marcel S. Kaboom, patent pending).

The campus is a converted asylum and uses unconventional methods. Students swallow their books in the form of pills, dodge balls attack the students, detention has something to do with animals and hypnotism, and each period begins and ends with the shot of a cannon.

Middle School Cool by Maiya Williams follows a group of 7^th grade students who have the illustrious calling to write the school paper: The Daily Dynamite. The eight student journalists investigate the strange happenings of Kaboom Middle School, ready to publish their bizarre findings. With an air of mystery and surprise, Middle School Cool is a book sure to ignite a young reader’s imagination.

• Posted by Shanelle