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    Punished!
    Punished!
    Punished!
    Ebook48 pages36 minutes

    Punished!

    By David Lubar

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    Logan and his friend Benedict run into the wrong guy at the library―literally. When Logan slams into the reference guy in the basement and gives him a little lip, Logan gets punished, really and truly punished. He has three days to complete three tasks before Professor Wordsworth will lift the magical punishment that keeps getting Logan in even more trouble.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLerner Publishing
    Release dateAug 1, 2013
    ISBN9781467731461
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    David Lubar

    David Lubar created a sensation with his debut novel, Hidden Talents, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Thousands of kids and educators across the country have voted Hidden Talents onto over twenty state lists. David is also the author of True Talents, the sequel to Hidden Talents; Flip, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a VOYA Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror selection; many short story collections in the Weenies and Teeny Weenies series; and the Nathan Abercrombie, Accidental Zombie series. Lubar grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, and he has also lived in New Brunswick, Edison and Piscataway, NJ, and Sacramento, CA. Besides writing, he has also worked as a video game programmer and designer. He now lives in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.

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    • 5/5
      This book was recommended to me by 5th grade students. I just love it when my students recommend books for me to read.This is great book to teach students about word plays. It is an excellent read-a-loud that can be followed up with activities allowing the students to create their own puns, anagrams, oxymorons, and palindromes. WOW! What a fun lesson.Teachers will enjoy the teachable moments and students will enjoy the humor.Recommended for Grades 3 and up (though it might work well as a read-aloud to 2nd graders. They will find the word play funny, even if they don't quite understand it all.)
    • 2/5
      Punished by David Lubar teaches second and third graders about certain kinds of words like puns, anagrams, and oxymorons. It would be best used in a classroom as a story time book in conjunction with some other vocabulary building exercises.The book opens with Logan getting in trouble with a reference librarian named Prof. Wordsworth. Grumpy Wordsworth puts a curse on Logan and the only way to undo it is to find seven examples of specific words, for a total of twenty-one, but Logan only has a limited amount of time to accomplish the task.Why did the person setting the curse have to be a reference librarian? Reference librarians don't go around cursing wayward patrons. Yes, they're about educating patrons but doing so in such a scary and horrendous way is anti-librarian. That disconnect really took away from my enjoyment of the book.
    • 1/5
      I really don't think the publishers know what they were doing. I mean, for crying out loud, they spelled the almost main character's name wrong! However, this book would probably be good for some teacher to read aloud because it teaches about oxymorons, anagrams, palindromes, and things of that nature. I wouldn't tell anyone to read this in spare time if they want to read a book. I don't know anyone who enjoys reading 96 pages of non-detailed, and forgive me for this last comment, junk.
    • 4/5
      This book does exactly what it sets out to do: provide lots of laughs and tell a fun tale. It also provides some great English grammar lessons without ever seeming didactic.
    • 4/5
      This books is a good example of fantasy/realistic fiction. It is a good example of fantasy because it involves magic and a spell that could not happen in real life. However, it is also a good example of realistic fiction, because it takes place in everyday settings. The reader can easily put themselves in the place of the main character.Stars: SettingAge: Intermediate

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    Punished! - David Lubar

    CHAPTER ONE

    Bound for the Library

    "This is a terrible idea,I told Benedict as we walked up the stone steps toward the huge wooden door. We could be having fun." It was wonderfully warm outside—a perfect day for tossing a baseball around.

    It’s a great idea, Benedict said. He dashed ahead of me and yanked the door open.

    But we have two weeks. The reports aren’t due until the end of the month. I left the beautiful May weather behind and followed Benedict into the cool darkness of the old building. The half-dozen lamps scattered around the floor tried their best to brighten the place, but the tall ceiling soaked up most of the light.

    It’s way too soon to get started, I said as the door closed behind me.

    We’ve got half days next week, Benedict said. If we do our reports now, we’ll be free then. Trust me, Logan. This is a good idea.

    I get it, I said. You’re trying to be picked as Student of the Month. As long as I’d known him, Benedict had wanted that—especially since the award came with a coupon good for a free super-deluxe pizza from Zio’s Kitchen. I’d won the award last January, but I promised myself I’d save my coupon for the perfect summer day. That would be the day I hit my first home run of the Little League season. Perfect pizza, perfect hit, perfect day—it would be worth the wait.

    I didn’t think Benedict would ever have to figure out when to use a pizza coupon. One way or another, no matter how hard he tried, he always messed up before the end of the month.

    I’ve got a real shot this month, he said. I can almost taste that pizza. Especially since I’m going to write such a great report—as soon as I figure out a good subject.

    Come on. Let’s just get this over with. There was no way I’d admit it to Benedict, but his idea sort of made sense. Our teacher, Mr. Vernack, had assigned us reports. We had to write five whole pages on the topic: What’s So Great about Being a Human? As far as I was concerned, I could answer that in one word. Baseball. But I had to fill five pages. And we couldn’t just make stuff up. Mr.Vernack said we were supposed to use at least three different sources, not counting the Internet. That meant stuff like books and magazines—which, naturally, meant the library. So Benedict and I had come here right after school.

    We walked past the towering rows of bookcases in the adult area and through the hall that led to the kids’ department. I didn’t expect we’d stay very long. Benedict has a hard time sitting still. So do I, but he makes me look calm. Even so, I thought we’d stay for more than five minutes.

    I was wrong.

    When we got to the kids’ area, I grabbed a couple of baseball books from the shelves in the sports section. I knew right where they were because I always checked to see if they’d gotten any new ones

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