How Many Ar Points Is Big Nate Strikes Again
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| Author | Lincoln Peirce |
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| Illustrator | Lincoln Peirce |
| Land | U.s.a. |
| Language | English language |
| Serial | Big Nate |
| Genre | Comedy Fictional Children'south novel Comic strip |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Publication date | October 19, 2010 |
| Media blazon | Print (Paperback and Hardcover) |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9780062009326 |
| Preceded past | Big Nate: In a Class by Himself |
| Followed by | Big Nate: On a Scroll |
Big Nate Strikes Again is a realistic fiction novel by American cartoonist Lincoln Peirce. Information technology is based on the comic strip and the second book in the Large Nate novel series. The volume was released on October 19, 2010. Information technology is aimed at children aged 8 to 12. It was published by HarperCollins Publishers. The volume has a 13,928 auction rank.
Plot [edit]
At Nate Wright'due south schoolhouse, a board of the students' baby pictures is put upward. Nate and his friend Teddy look at the pictures, and after noticing that in his picture, Nate is trying to put a square toy in a circle peg, Teddy teases Nate for being a stupid baby. Nate points out Gina's film, because he idea it was his beat, Jenny's picture. Nate calls the moving picture 'beautiful', only Gina arrives and ridicules Nate. In Mrs. Godfrey'due south first menses social studies class, she assigns the students a research paper on a great American figure, which they volition exist doing with a randomly drawn partner. While Teddy is paired up with his friend Francis, Nate is partnered with Gina, much to their dismay. Subsequently Gina tells Nate the historical figure they will be writing about is Benjamin Franklin, Nate discovers that he has been named a team helm in his school's intramural fleece ball tournament (intramural sports are referred to as SPOFFs by the students). Later on Nate's rival, Randy, discovers that he is a captain also 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 disruptive in scientific discipline form and being sent to the library, Nate decides to read books nearly Benjamin Franklin for his inquiry project, and becomes very interested in him. Afterward he returns to his science class where he receives a lecture from Mr. Galvin, he realizes that he missed the fleece ball helm's meeting, where he would have chosen team members. Fortunately, Coach Calhoun has already written a team roster in Nate's absence, which included Francis, Teddy, and many expert players. All the same, it also included Gina, who is not very athletic.
When Nate returns abode to remember of a name for his team, he gets a phone call from Gina to check on his progress, at which betoken his dad gets the wrong idea nigh the ii of them, and causing Nate's sister Ellen to starting time bragging about her success in middle schoolhouse. While Nate went upstairs to come up up with a squad name, his neighbor's dog, Spitsy, gives him an idea for a team proper noun: the "Psycho Dogs". When Nate arrives at school, Randy chases him to become revenge on Nate's locker fob the other 24-hour interval, resulting in Nate getting to become to the library to exercise research on his production, and Randy getting in problem with the master for running in the school. After writing some Ben Franklin comics, Nate goes to Art class, where he makes a good luck charm for his squad, reminding him that he forgot to submit the team name. Nate gets to Jitney Calhoun'southward office as quickly as he tin, where he learns that Gina had submitted a squad proper noun already, the "Kuddle Kittens". At lunch, Nate plans to get revenge on Gina past dumping egg salad on her, but he accidentally dumps it on Jenny instead. After that incident, Nate learns that his team will exist playing Artur's squad, the "Killer Bees" after school. The Kuddle Kittens prove themselves to exist the superior team simply nevertheless struggle due to Gina constantly committing errors to the indicate of ruining Nate'south concluding swing, costing them the game. Nate also tried to tell his coach about Gina'south interference with him, but the coach says that interference could non be called on a teammate, making his team'south loss official.
Two days later, Nate is even so trying to recover from the loss when Gina come up over to work on the project. After she rejects Nate's comics, they go into an statement which leads to them making a deal: Nate will let Gina write the report so she can ensure her A+ grade average is sustained, and Gina will come up with excuses to get out of playing fleece ball, so Nate'south team can stand up a meliorate chance. They milkshake hands to seal their deal which Nate'southward dad sees, further convincing him of their fictional human relationship. The solar day earlier the projection is due and the final fleece ball game is held, Nate begins to sell copies of "Poor Nate'due south Almanack", inspired past Ben Franklin'due south Poor Richard's Almanack. The summit story is the big project being due tomorrow, and the current fleece brawl standings, which evidence that the Kuddle Kittens and the Raptors (lead past Randy) are tied with wins and losses and volition compete in the final match, also tomorrow. All the same, Principal Nichols tells Nate that he can't sell his Almanack during school hours and must accept down his stand. As Nate and Teddy move the table, Randy comes running upward with a notebook stolen from Republic of chad, and accidentally runs into the table, giving himself a bloody nose. Randy immediately blames Nate, just Ms. Clarke saw what really happened and gives Randy detention, who mutters to Nate that payback time will come up tomorrow.
The adjacent mean solar day, Gina easily in the Ben Franklin enquiry paper to Mrs. Godfrey, who reveals that she and Nate will receive a declining 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 connection to Ben Franklin being a cartoonist himself. She therefore awards the projection an A+, nonetheless Gina is furious equally she knew the comics she had chosen garbage are the things that saved her academic tape. At the finish of the day, the two fleece brawl teams assemble to play the final 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 become back and along 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 as hard as he could while making it look similar an accident. Nate gets benched with a swelling pes, and Gina decides to play in the rest of the game. As Nate predicted, Gina missed the ball on the Raptors' last bat and they and then pb with two points. When information technology is the Kuddle Kittens' last turn to bat, Francis and Teddy attain the bases with ii outs, and Gina is up to bat last. Gina speedily gets two strikes, causing Nate to try to take her place merely Gina remains out, and hits the final throw, resulting in a domicile 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 near the Kuddle Kittens' victory in the latest edition of Poor Nate's Almanack, which Gina dislikes because Nate claimed it was a lucky hitting. They become into a minor statement, which Gina escalates by screaming at Nate about how he never studies. This results in Mrs. Hickson, the librarian, writing Gina the offset detention she e'er received. Later on Gina leaves and claims Nate is zero similar Ben Franklin, Nate disagrees and notes that if Ben Franklin were alive today, the 2 of them would become along very well.
Characters [edit]
- Nate Wright - The chief protagonist; a pre-adolescent male child, known for his large ego and sarcasm.
- Teddy Ortiz - Nate's #1A best friend, who is a jokester and known for his skill at Yo mama jokes.
- Francis Pope - Nate'due south #i best friend, who is known for his over-the-acme intelligent quotient, and Nate frequently calls him a geek.
- Marty Wright - Nate'due south somewhat clueless begetter, who plays golf game and is known to brand horrible food.
- Artur Pashkov - Jenny's beau, and Nate's arch-rival; a Byelorussian commutation student and speaks broken English. In the volume, he plays a minor office, equally his fleeceball team wins over "Kuddle Kittens."
- Gina Hemphill-Toms - The secondary adversary as well as Nate'southward arch-nemesis and Ms. Godfrey'southward favorite educatee in the class. In the book, she & Nate are assigned to the roles of project 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 habitation run, winning the team against the Raptors, and earning herself the Spoffy, a trophy, Nate was planning on winning.
- Randy Betancourt - One of Nate'south rivals; the school nifty. In the book, he is the principal antagonist; the captain of Nate'south opponent fleeceball team: the Raptors.
- Mrs. Clara Godfrey - Nate's ultimate nemesis; his social studies instructor at room 213.
- Ellen Wright - Nate'south eleventh-grade abrasive older sister.
- Jenny Jenkins - Nate's love interest and Arthur's girlfriend. In the book, like her boyfriend, she plays a modest role, equally she is assigned project partners with Arthur, and Nate accidentally dumps egg salad all over her (he originally meant to exercise information technology to Gina).
- Republic of chad Applewhite - One of Nate'due south friends. Like the previous book, he plays a minor role, as he is on Nate's fleece ball team, and annoys Nate past cheering on Gina on their lucifer confronting the Raptors.
Reception [edit]
Critical reception has been positive, with the School Library Journal writing that the volume was "clever and funny".[1] Booklist praised the book's "easy-reading narrative" [2] and Kirkus Reviews called the book "A latter-24-hour interval Peanuts and a kinder, gentler Diary of a Wimpy Kid."[3]
See besides [edit]
- Diary of a Wimpy Child
- The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants Episodes
References [edit]
- ^ Grades 5 & Up
- ^ Large Nate Strikes Again Booklist
- ^ Big Nate: Strikes Once again Kirkus Reviews
External links [edit]
- Official website
- Official site of the series
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Nate:_Strikes_Again