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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2004
Gr 4-7 Sixth-grader Hart Evans's least-favorite class is chorus, where uptight Mr. Meinert makes them sing boring songs. When Hart shoots a couple of rubber bands at the teacher, the man overreacts and is angry when the smooth-talking boy gets off relatively unscathed. Although the class is not told, readers learn that Mr. Meinert will lose his job after January 1 because of budget cuts. When the students act up the next...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on November 1, 2004
Sixth-grader Hart is a good kid, but kind of cocky, and the temptation to enliven the boring holiday chorus rehearsals with a few rubber-band assaults is too strong to resi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More