My Teacher's in Detention
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Chapter Book · Ages 6–12 · 2006

My Teacher's in Detention

By Bruce Lansky, Stephen Carpenter (Illustrator)

Part of the Giggle Poetry series

Discover the chaos and comedy of school life through 50 laugh-out-loud poems.

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Dive into a world where school is a playground of humor. From the trials of homework to the quirks of detention, these 50 poems capture the hilarity of classroom antics. Join the fun as well-known poets bring to life the everyday adventures and misadventures of school life. Will you survive the gross-out lunches and tricky tests with a smile? Find out in this giggle-packed collection!

From the publisher

This book delivers 45 hilarious poems about school that cover everything from homework and tests to detention and school lunches. Well-known poets Bruce Lansky, Kenn Nesbitt, and Robert Pottle – plus many more great Giggle Poets – wrote these gems. My Teacher’s In Detention contains 50 hilarious poems about school that cover everything from homework and tests to detention and gross-out school lunches. The book contains poems by well-known poets, including Bruce Lansky, Kenn Nesbitt, Robert Pottle, and more great “giggle poets.” Editor and contributor Bruce Lansky is one of North America’s three bestselling authors of children’s poetry books. His kid-tested, giggle-filled children’s poetry books have sold over 3.5 million copies. This book follows on the success of Lansky’s other school poetry anthologies, No More Homework! No More Tests!, and If Kids Ruled the School, which have sold over 500,000 copies in all editions and are among the best selling children’s poetry books at retail.

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Format
Paperback
Pages
80
Reading age
6–12
Audience
Juvenile Reader
Lexile
650L
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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
~4.2
F&P level
~P
Publication
Published
July 1, 2006
First published
June 27, 2006
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9780689052453

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