The Chicken Doesn't Skate
By Gordon Korman
Scholastic Press, 1996. Fiction. 197 p.
Milo
decides to do his sixth grade science fair project on “The Complete
Life Cycle of a Link in the Food Chain” which involves following a baby
chick from birth to frying pan. But when Milo brings his specimen, a
baby chick,
to class, everyone falls in love with it and makes Henrietta the class
pet. Through zany situations (which Korman is really good at writing)
Henrietta becomes involved in so many students' lives and even becomes
the mascot for the school’s hockey team.
It’s
probably because I am missing hockey (Is it October yet?) but when I
saw that Korman, one of my favorite Children’s/Teen author had a written
a hockey story I couldn’t resist posting about it even though the story
was written
in the '90s. Even with the passage of time, the humor still plays out
well and will have the reader laughing and gasping “oh no!” with the
antics of the class as they try to save Henrietta. Told from the
viewpoints of multiple class members this book, makes
for a great listen with multiple narrators, so check out the audio
version, which we have available through RBdigital.
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