Author: Donna Gephart
Summary: How to Survive Middle School is told by David Greenberg, a boy who loves to make videos based off his favorite show The Daily Show. After a summer that did not go anywhere near as planned, David is left without his best friend, who is now his enemy, to start sixth grade while also missing his mother who left his family two years ago. David gets suspended his first day in class and detention the following day due to a fight and also being late to his first class with Ms. Lovely. David stops getting into trouble but continues to feel lonely at the big middle school where his only friend is a new girl named Sophie. The story continues along as David's online YouTube videos begin to get popular with the local and state newspaper coming to interview him while David's school life is miserable. After David gets a dreaded swirlie by the bully Tommy and his whole class seeing him dripping toilet water in the hall, David runs home to find his hamster, Hammy, the last gift from his mom, dead. After this, David's life begins to get better as his old best friend, who was friends with Tommy the bully, is now back friends with David. David's video also inspired the school's newscast to invite David to join the cast once or twice a week along with David's video being shown on his all time favorite show, The Daily Show.
Lesson: I would read this book to my class if I had a fifth grade class. I would start reading it in the last few months of the school year and have discussions after reading different sections to the class. I'm sure my fifth grade class would be getting nervous to start middle school so I think that this book would allow them to see sixth grade as an adventure. Some discussions would deal with what they should do if they are being bullied such as when Tommy and his friends are bullying David.
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