The Principal's Underwear Is Missing - Softcover

Kowitt, Holly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250158621 ISBN 13: 9781250158628

Publisher: Square Fish, 2018

Synopsis

When a shopping bag goes missing from the principal's office, a sixth-grade "nobody" is recruited by Selfie, the most popular girl in the eighth grade, to help solve the mystery in this contemporary middle grade novel.

"Will be appreciated by readers who enjoy mean girl stories, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries series, and other school survival tales.” ―School Library Journal

When you're a sixth-grade nobody, the last person you want to accidentally zonk with a volleyball is Sloan "Selfie" St. Clair―the eighth-grade glamour queen of the school. But that's what happens to Becca Birnbaum, and it only gets worse when she tries to do Selfie a favor. She grabs the wrong shopping bag from the principal's office―one containing a very personal item. And even that might not be so bad, if only Selfie didn't immediately lose it.

If they don't get it back ASAP, they're toast. They try not to panic―until they hear that the Biggest Prank Ever is about to happen. Can the school's oddest couple stop the disaster of a lifetime?

Full of laughs and hijinks, Holly Kowitt's The Principal's Underwear is Missing is a delightful, illustrated read about middle school cliques, unexpected friendships, and one hilarious misadventure after the next.

Praise for The Principal's Underwear Is Missing:

“In this amusing read with its Wimpy Kid―like line drawings, kids will learn that it's OK to associate with someone who's different―you might even have fun. . . . Kowitt's well-written title gets school social dynamics right and will be appreciated by readers who enjoy mean girl stories, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries series, and other school survival tales.” ―School Library Journal

"Along with an arresting title and laughs aplenty, this helter-skelter caper features two middle-schoolers who aren’t quite as typecast as they seem. . . . Kowitt’s cartoon insertions supply the romp with punchlines and wry visual commentary." ―Booklist

About this title

About the Author:

Holly Kowitt has written more than fifty books for younger readers, including the Loser List series. She lives in New York City, where she enjoys cycling, flea markets, and West Coast swing dancing.

From School Library Journal:

Gr 4–6—Becca's not in the popular crowd. She has friends, but they're nothing like Sloan "Selfie" St. Clair, the "it" girl at school who walks around with fancy coffee, uses pink-feather pens, and looks down her nose at kids who don't wear designer clothes from head to toe. After Becca accidentally hurts Selfie and approaches her to apologize, the two are suddenly thrust into what for Becca is a scary ordeal and what might be Selfie's last straw with the principal: they must take action before the woman's very large bra is sent up the school flagpole by a prankster. In this amusing read with its Wimpy Kid—like line drawings, kids will learn that it's OK to associate with someone who's different—you might even have fun. VERDICT Kowitt's well-written title gets school social dynamics right and will be appreciated by readers who enjoy mean girl stories, the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" and "Dork Diaries" series, and other school survival tales.—Henrietta Verma, National Information Standards Organization, Baltimore

About this edition

• Publisher: Square Fish
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1250158621
• ISBN 13: 9781250158628
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Illustrator: Kowitt Holly