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Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

By: James Patterson, Chris Tebbetts
Narrated by: Bryan Kennedy
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Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he's got an ace plan for the best year ever, if only he can pull it off: With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school's oppressive Code of Conduct. Chewing gum in class - 5,000 points! Running in the hallway = 10,000 points! Pulling the fire alarm - 50,000 points! But when Rafe's game starts to catch up with him, he'll have to decide if winning is all that matters, or if he's finally ready to face the rules, bullies, and truths he's been avoiding.

Blockbuster author James Patterson delivers a genuinely hilarious - and surprisingly poignant - story of a wildly imaginative, one-of-kind kid that you won't soon forget.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2011 James Patterson (P)2011 Hachette Audio

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Great book

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I liked this book a lot. I'm now going to read the second book in this series.
I'm an 11-year-old boy who would rather be outside than read.

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The Fourth Stall

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I read two chapters per night.

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More bad message than good.

This book consists of 3 1/2 hrs of glorifying, cheering, and even providing instruction for the breaking of rules which we are taught are simply not for some people. Then you have 30 min of lucky breaks and improved circumstances for a protagonist that does not seem to have learned any of the lessons available along the way. The message seems to be "Be a brat, have a good time, ignore school work, and everything will work out in the end anyway."

It weirdly illustrates but fails to acknowledge the problem of telling harmless imaginary friends from juvenile onset schizophrenia in a child who is clearly acting out at the insistance of a voice that only he hears urging him to do bad things. Patterson has clearly strayed far to far from his area of expertise. The bad messages far outweigh the good in this book, which is odd today when there are so many really good books available.

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Realy the best I have ever heard

I love that it was so realistic and fun. I would recommend it to people who don't like to read.🙂

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FUN

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My son listened and enjoyed. enjoyable by my son. he listened as a relief after secondary schoo entrance exam and found it a stress reliever.

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Truly 6th grade

Was not the fun story I expected. It is narrated by a supposed juvenile but turns into a predictable story that bordered on boring

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Good book

Good book. Listened to the book at night! I would really recommend this book to anyone who likes to laugh! :)

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Really good book for middle schoolers

I am a middle schooler and I loved this book and I would recommend it for your middle schooler!!!

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Awesome

Honestly I love the book so much! I truly recommend for this fifth graders going into middle school to read over the summer because that's was doing.

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Great

This is a really good book. The only bad thing is that the author doesn't really It's go into detail. Other than that, it's great. It's very funny.

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If you could sum up Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life in three words, what would they be?

CRAZY FOR TROUBLE

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Leo beacuse he is the one who always keeps Rafe on operation Rafe

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