Nerd No More by Kristine L. Franklin, John Ward (Illustrator)
(Hardcover - 1st ed)
- Publisher: Candlewick Press
- Pub. Date: September 1996
- ISBN-13: 9781564026743
- Age Range: 9 to 12
- 144pp
- Edition Description: 1st ed
- Edition Number: 1
Synopsis
Wiggie Carter is a regular kid. Smart, but basically a lot like everyone else in the sixth grade--until his mom becomes the host of Jump Into Science, an educational TV show. Suddenly Wiggie is famous--a famous nerd. Even when Wiggie makes friends with Callie, an outcast by anyone's definition, the lure of being one of the cool kids remain overwhelming. It's not until the cool kids lead Wiggie into real trouble that he proves to himself, and everyone else, that being smart is cool--and that just being yourself is even better.
Annotation
Wiggie Carter gets himself into real trouble because he tries desperately to be a cool kid instead of a nerd with a mom who hosts a TV science show.
Publishers Weekly
Wiggie Carter is a nerd, and he wants to be cool. This shopworn premise is smothered right off the bat by a pile of equally tired stereotypes. Among them: Wiggie wears thick glasses. His mother is a scientist with her own educational TV show. He has a brilliant younger brother who blows things up on the kitchen floor. All the kids in Wiggie's sixth grade harass him and call him "Bowel Boy" (his mother uses the word "bowels" in a TV lecture on parasites), and the teacher never says a word. Wiggie decides to mousse his hair and put green glitter on top of that, but it doesn't make him popular until he sneezes on a girl and gets "glitter boogers" on her. As expected, the clueless adults are no help; it's a wise friend, Callie, who teaches Wiggie that it might be okay to be smart. There's not enough pizzazz here to be enticing nor enough freshness to be funny. Ages 9-12. (Sept.)
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Nerd No Moreby SusanneDeen
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December 02, 2008:
The title of the book I read is called,? Nerd No More', by Kristine L. Franklin. The main character in this story is Ludwig V. Carter. He is in the sixth grade and he is very friendly to people, as long as they are friendly too. He also has a brother Wolfie who can get on his nerves at times, but you can tell Wiggie loves his brother Wolfie by the way Wiggie acts around him.
The problem in this story is that Wiggie?s Mother is on the science channel and Wiggie is very smart, so he is considered as a nerd. Before Wiggie was a nerd, he had a best friend named Billy. But then a new kid Eddie came to Wiggie's school, and Billy and Eddie became best friends and started to call Wiggie a nerd. So then Wiggie was considered to be a nerd. Then, a girl named Callie was transferred from her fifth grade class to Wiggie?s sixth grade class because she was very smart, and was she called a nerd just like Wiggie was called too. When Wiggie told Callie that he wished he wasn?t called a nerd she told him to change his image. So for the next couple of days Wiggie changed his image every day. Then when Callie and Wiggie were talking after school Eddie and Billy came by and started to make fun of Wiggie and Callie. But then Wiggie sneezed all over Callie and snot was all over her, he started to laugh and Callie ran crying the entire way home. Now, Callie was really mad and didn?t want to talk to Wiggie anymore, but Billy and Eddie thought that was funny so Eddie, Billy and Wiggie all became friends.
After that day there was a field trip to the wilderness. During the field trip a medium sized tree fell on top of Billy. And while Eddie was getting help, Wiggie was trying to lift the tree but couldn?t so he called out for help. Apparently, Callie and her friends heard and they helped get the tree off of Billy. After they finally got the tree off of Billy, Wiggie told Callie a sincere apology and Callie forgave him. Now, Callie was Wiggie?s friend again and so were Billy and Eddie, even knowing Wiggie was friends with Callie now.
This story took place at a field trip to the wilderness, Wiggie?s home and Wiggie?s school. And the underlying meaning of this story is that know matter what kind of person you are, just be yourself and even if you don?t get the friends that you want, you still get the friends who stick up for you and help you out at hard times.
I did like this story because I thought it was very interesting and it had problems in the story that could happen in real life. A connection I have from the story, is that I have friends that would help me when I am in trouble, like how Callie told Wiggie to change his image when he didn?t want to be called a nerd anymore. Another connection I have from the story is that I would do the same thing as Wiggie and change my image if I was called a nerd all the time.
Two books that relate to the book I read, `nerd no more?, is `Diary of a Wimpy Kid?, and `Diary of a Wimpy Kid; Roderick rules? because all books have nerds in them who have to overcome the picking on, calling names and just be there self because either way they will have at least one friend that will stick up for them and will help them out at difficult times.
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I didn't Like Books Now I Do !!READ THIS!!by Anonymous
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February 19, 2001: When I read this book it was really exciting and interesting.Iused to not to go to bookstores when my family but now I have no problem. The reason I got this book was because it was like a fun and funny book for us kids. I always wanted to know how it would feel like to be a nerd.So thats a nother reason I picked this book.
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