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Poor Aldo. It's September, and he hates saying goodbye to his Slushies-and-sleeping-in summer schedule. At the store, while (horror-of-horrors) shopping for school supplies, he meets Danny—a deaf boy who will be a new student at Aldo's school. Danny challenges Aldo from day one, and it will take a lot of back-and-forth to figure out if they can get along.
But Danny's not the only new fly in Aldo's bacon grease. Aldo soon meets his cute new art teacher and finds himself doing crazy things, like losing the ability to speak when she's around and giving up recess to make posters. Embarrassed about his artistic abilities, Aldo has always underplayed his talent at school, but there's something about art class this year that spurs him to go all out in a brazen attempt to win the school art contest.
All this and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dungeons & Dragons, Dagwood sandwiches, the continuing adventures of Bacon Boy, oodles of divine D words, and so much more YOU might just find yourself dumbstruck. In a good, laugh-out-loud kind of way.
The fourth book in Aldo Zelnick's alphabetical series, Dumbstruck includes fun and challenging "D" words such as delectable, doofus, and defenestrate.
Hardcover • Illustrated chapter book
ISBN: 978-1-934649-16-9
Published October 2011
For readers 7-13
AR reading level: 4.2; Guided reading level: R
160 pages
Download an excerpt of Dumbstruck.
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But Danny's not the only new fly in Aldo's bacon grease. Aldo soon meets his cute new art teacher and finds himself doing crazy things, like losing the ability to speak when she's around and giving up recess to make posters. Embarrassed about his artistic abilities, Aldo has always underplayed his talent at school, but there's something about art class this year that spurs him to go all out in a brazen attempt to win the school art contest.
All this and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dungeons & Dragons, Dagwood sandwiches, the continuing adventures of Bacon Boy, oodles of divine D words, and so much more YOU might just find yourself dumbstruck. In a good, laugh-out-loud kind of way.
The fourth book in Aldo Zelnick's alphabetical series, Dumbstruck includes fun and challenging "D" words such as delectable, doofus, and defenestrate.
Hardcover • Illustrated chapter book
ISBN: 978-1-934649-16-9
Published October 2011
For readers 7-13
AR reading level: 4.2; Guided reading level: R
160 pages
Download an excerpt of Dumbstruck.
Loved it? Review Dumbstruck on Goodreads.
2011 Quid Novi Award, First Prize
"The Aldo Zelnick books keep getting better and better." - Mary Lee Hahn on her A Year of Reading"Favorite Series" blog "I can't imagine anyone not laughing throughout... Deaf character Danny is the new kid in school and I loved that Oceanak let him be just as sarcastic and devious as the hearing characters... Danny is probably cooler than the other characters but that is because of his Justin Bieber-ish hair rather than his deafness." - Dr. Sharon Pajka, Gallaudet University professor, on her Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature blog "My students will be beyond excited to see another volume added to this series... Wonderful addition to the Aldo series." - Katherine Sokolowski (katsok) on Goodreads.com |