Friday, April 11, 2014

The Year Of Billy Miller




The Year Of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes                               229 pages
Billy is starting second grade and he’s a little worried.  He’s worried that he won’t be smart.  He fell and hit his head and the doctor said he was fine but he heard his mom and dad talking about it and now he’s worried.  The rest of the book takes Billy through the school year.  There is a section that focuses on his teacher, when Billy thinks that Ms. Silver might think that he was making fun of her so he comes up with a plan so that Ms. Silver will know that he likes her.  The next section is about his dad, who he calls Papa, but he thinks that maybe Papa is too babyish and he might want to start calling him Dad.  In the next session, Billy tries to enlist his sister’s help to stay awake all night.  Of course, his sister, Sal, is only three, so the plan may not work so well.  In the last section, Billy has to write a poem about one of his family members and he chooses his mom.  This is a nice, easy chapter book for younger readers.  Kids that like real life stories should enjoy it.

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