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Thomas Tuttle, Just in Timeby Becky Thoman Lindberg Ages 9-12 |
Third grade can be difficult enough, but when you're Thomas Tuttle it can be downright frustrating. Thomas is not the most organized person in the world. He may get dressed for the day in clothes from the pile on his bedroom floor or from the dirty-clothes hamper. Class assignments are thrown together 10 minutes before they're due. But this time Thomas is determined to get a good start on his Maryland Day history project and win a prize. Along the way Thomas and his good friend Arthur have a couple of adventures, including inadvertently foiling a shoplifter. Lindberg has made Thomas a real boy we care about. Readers will readily cheer his earnest efforts not to be the class misfit. One blunder that kids are sure to catch is an illustration of a little girl wearing thongs when she's just been denied entrance to a store for being barefoot. Oops! — Booklist (Denia Hester)
Likeable Thomas Tuttle has trouble getting homework done, accidentally disrupts a shoplifter, is rewarded with a book that claims to help him in school, and discovers it requires more than a book to succeed. By the author of Chelsea Martin Turns Green. — Ingram