Review by Isabelle
By Eric Luper
Ages 9-12
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Copyright
2011
240 pages
I
rate this book 5 out of 5 stars
When six grade boy, Jeremy Bender, damages
his father’s prized Chris Craft boat with some grape soda he has to
somehow get money to fix it. It cost about $475 and he does not have enough to
pay for the repairs. He and his best friend, Slater, have to find a way to get the money. When
they saw a poster that you could win $500 by winning a model boat race Jeremy and Slater got super excited until
they saw that it is for Cupcake Cadets ONLY( Cupcake Cadets is a club for
girls). Jeremy tries to convince Slater to join Cupcake Cadets, but Slater says
it is a bad idea.
When they decide to try it, they
sneak into Ruthie’s room and change into some cupcake cadet uniforms from
Jeremy’s sister Ruthie because she was a Cupcake Cadet a long
time ago.
They do not want anyone to find
out they are boys because they won’t be
able to try to win the money.
They end up making a lot of messes and mistakes.
One of their mistakes is when they wanted to make some pie to earn a badge but
it turns out to be a catastrophe. When they bring it to the next meeting
everyone was throwing up and saying it was terrible because it was as hard as a rock. When they go camping there are
three girls to a tent but no one wants to sleep with them. All the girls made a
deal with Margaret that they will sell the rest of her cupcakes if she shares a
tent with Jenna and Samantha (Jeremy and Slater).
I will tell you it is a great
book to read. I won’t tell
you the ending though. If you like adventures I think you would love this book
as much as I do. I hope you enjoy it too!
:)
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I hope this review gets some people interested in reading Jeremy Bender, I love this book! It makes a great read aloud too :)
ReplyDeleteI will definitely recommend this book to my students. thanks, Isabelle!
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