Big Nate Strikes Again Bat Bones and Spider Stew
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| Author | Lincoln Peirce |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Lincoln Peirce |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Serial | Big Nate |
| Genre | One-act Fictional Children's novel Comic strip |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Publication appointment | October 19, 2010 |
| Media blazon | Print (Paperback and Hardcover) |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9780062009326 |
| Preceded past | Big Nate: In a Class by Himself |
| Followed by | Large Nate: On a Roll |
Big Nate Strikes Again is a realistic fiction novel by American cartoonist Lincoln Peirce. It is based on the comic strip and the second book in the Large Nate novel series. The volume was released on October nineteen, 2010. It is aimed at children aged 8 to 12. It was published by HarperCollins Publishers. The book has a 13,928 sale rank.
Plot [edit]
At Nate Wright's school, a board of the students' baby pictures is put up. Nate and his friend Teddy look at the pictures, and after noticing that in his flick, Nate is trying to put a square toy in a circle peg, Teddy teases Nate for being a stupid infant. Nate points out Gina's picture, because he thought it was his vanquish, Jenny'due south flick. Nate calls the picture 'cute', but Gina arrives and ridicules Nate. In Mrs. Godfrey's get-go period social studies class, she assigns the students a research newspaper on a great American figure, which they will exist doing with a randomly drawn partner. While Teddy is paired upward with his friend Francis, Nate is partnered with Gina, much to their dismay. Afterwards Gina tells Nate the historical effigy they will exist writing virtually is Benjamin Franklin, Nate discovers that he has been named a squad captain in his school'southward intramural fleece ball tournament (intramural sports are referred to as SPOFFs by the students). After Nate's rival, Randy, discovers that he is a captain too and talks smack at Nate, Nate takes Randy to his overfilled locker where he buries Randy in a pile of trash in the locker. After being confusing in science class and being sent to the library, Nate decides to read books about Benjamin Franklin for his research project, and becomes very interested in him. After he returns to his scientific discipline form where he receives a lecture from Mr. Galvin, he realizes that he missed the fleece brawl captain'due south meeting, where he would have called team members. Fortunately, Passenger vehicle Calhoun has already written a team roster in Nate'southward absence, which included Francis, Teddy, and many proficient players. Nonetheless, it as well included Gina, who is not very athletic.
When Nate returns home to recall of a proper noun for his team, he gets a phone call from Gina to check on his progress, at which point his dad gets the wrong idea about the two of them, and causing Nate's sister Ellen to start bragging most her success in middle school. While Nate went upstairs to come up upward with a squad name, his neighbor'southward domestic dog, Spitsy, gives him an idea for a team name: the "Psycho Dogs". When Nate arrives at school, Randy chases him to get revenge on Nate's locker flim-flam the other 24-hour interval, resulting in Nate getting to get to the library to do research on his product, and Randy getting in trouble with the principal for running in the school. Afterward writing some Ben Franklin comics, Nate goes to Art course, where he makes a good luck charm for his squad, reminding him that he forgot to submit the team proper noun. Nate gets to Coach Calhoun's office as rapidly equally he tin, where he learns that Gina had submitted a squad name already, the "Kuddle Kittens". At lunch, Nate plans to go revenge on Gina by dumping egg salad on her, only he accidentally dumps it on Jenny instead. After that incident, Nate learns that his squad will exist playing Artur'southward team, the "Killer Bees" after school. The Kuddle Kittens evidence themselves to exist the superior team but nonetheless struggle due to Gina constantly committing errors to the point of ruining Nate'south last swing, costing them the game. Nate as well tried to tell his passenger vehicle about Gina'south interference with him, but the coach says that interference could non be called on a teammate, making his squad's loss official.
Two days later on, Nate is yet trying to recover from the loss when Gina come over to piece of work on the project. Afterward she rejects Nate's comics, they get into an argument which leads to them making a deal: Nate will allow Gina write the report so she can ensure her A+ grade boilerplate is sustained, and Gina volition come up up with excuses to get out of playing fleece ball, and then Nate's team can stand up a better chance. They shake easily to seal their deal which Nate's dad sees, farther convincing him of their fictional human relationship. The mean solar day earlier the project is due and the final fleece ball game is held, Nate begins to sell copies of "Poor Nate'south Almanack", inspired by Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack. The top story is the large project existence due tomorrow, and the current fleece ball standings, which show that the Kuddle Kittens and the Raptors (lead by Randy) are tied with wins and losses and will compete in the final lucifer, also tomorrow. However, Principal Nichols tells Nate that he tin't sell his Almanack during school hours and must have down his stand. Every bit Nate and Teddy motion the table, Randy comes running up with a notebook stolen from Chad, and accidentally runs into the tabular array, giving himself a bloody olfactory organ. Randy immediately blames Nate, but Ms. Clarke saw what really happened and gives Randy detention, who mutters to Nate that payback time will come up tomorrow.
The next day, Gina easily in the Ben Franklin inquiry paper to Mrs. Godfrey, who reveals that she and Nate will receive a failing grade due to Gina using unoriginal visual aids, ruining her perfect academic record. But then Nate shows Mrs. Godfrey his Ben Franklin comics, which she finds delightful for their originality, and their connexion to Ben Franklin being a cartoonist himself. She therefore awards the projection an A+, however Gina is furious equally she knew the comics she had chosen garbage are the things that saved her bookish record. At the cease of the day, the two fleece brawl teams gather to play the concluding game, with Gina going through with her function of the deal and sitting out, claiming to take food poisoning. The Kuddle Kittens and the Raptors go back and forth between the lead until they are tied at the ninth inning, where Randy tricks Nate into thinking he has an easy out and stomps on Nate's foot every bit hard as he could while making information technology wait like an blow. Nate gets benched with a swelling foot, and Gina decides to play in the balance of the game. As Nate predicted, Gina missed the ball on the Raptors' terminal bat and they then lead with ii points. When it is the Kuddle Kittens' last plow to bat, Francis and Teddy reach the bases with ii outs, and Gina is upwards to bat last. Gina speedily gets ii strikes, causing Nate to try to take her place merely Gina remains out, and hits the last throw, resulting in a dwelling run. Coach Calhoun declares the Kuddle Kittens the winners and gives the Spoffy (the trophy awarded at the end of SPOFFs) to Gina instead of Nate. Later in the library, Nate writes about the Kuddle Kittens' victory in the latest edition of Poor Nate's Almanack, which Gina dislikes because Nate claimed information technology was a lucky hitting. They get into a minor argument, which Gina escalates past screaming at Nate about how he never studies. This results in Mrs. Hickson, the librarian, writing Gina the starting time detention she always received. After Gina leaves and claims Nate is null like Ben Franklin, Nate disagrees and notes that if Ben Franklin were live today, the ii of them would get along very well.
Characters [edit]
- Nate Wright - The primary protagonist; a pre-adolescent boy, known for his large ego and sarcasm.
- Teddy Ortiz - Nate's #1A all-time friend, who is a jokester and known for his skill at Yo mama jokes.
- Francis Pope - Nate'south #one best friend, who is known for his over-the-superlative intelligent quotient, and Nate often calls him a geek.
- Marty Wright - Nate'due south somewhat clueless father, who plays golf game and is known to make horrible food.
- Artur Pashkov - Jenny's boyfriend, and Nate's arch-rival; a Belarusan exchange student and speaks cleaved English. In the volume, he plays a pocket-size role, as his fleeceball squad wins over "Kuddle Kittens."
- Gina Hemphill-Toms - The secondary antagonist besides as Nate's arch-nemesis and Ms. Godfrey's favorite student in the form. In the book, she & Nate are assigned to the roles of projection partners (due to Nate's original partner being absent-minded), and she ruins Nate's fleeceball team by joining and giving them the name: "Kuddle Kittens," angering Nate. In the end, she hits a home run, winning the team against the Raptors, and earning herself the Spoffy, a bays, Nate was planning on winning.
- Randy Betancourt - One of Nate'southward rivals; the school not bad. In the book, he is the main adversary; the captain of Nate's opponent fleeceball squad: the Raptors.
- Mrs. Clara Godfrey - Nate'due south ultimate nemesis; his social studies instructor at room 213.
- Ellen Wright - Nate'south eleventh-grade annoying older sister.
- Jenny Jenkins - Nate's honey interest and Arthur'due south girlfriend. In the book, like her boyfriend, she plays a pocket-size role, as she is assigned projection partners with Arthur, and Nate accidentally dumps egg salad all over her (he originally meant to do it to Gina).
- Chad Applewhite - One of Nate's friends. Like the previous book, he plays a minor role, as he is on Nate's fleece ball team, and annoys Nate past auspicious on Gina on their match against the Raptors.
Reception [edit]
Disquisitional reception has been positive, with the School Library Periodical writing that the book was "clever and funny".[1] Booklist praised the book'due south "easy-reading narrative" [2] and Kirkus Reviews called the volume "A latter-day Peanuts and a kinder, gentler Diary of a Wimpy Child."[3]
Come across also [edit]
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants Episodes
References [edit]
- ^ Grades v & Upwards
- ^ Large Nate Strikes Again Booklist
- ^ Big Nate: Strikes Again Kirkus Reviews
External links [edit]
- Official website
- Official site of the series
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Nate:_Strikes_Again
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