Reviews by Tag: funny

George and Harold are back at it again with their pranks. It is the Second Annual Invention

Convention at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, and George and Harold decide to sabotage all

of students’ inventions. However, they soon are caught and punished by their principal, Mr. Krupp,

but George and Harold still haven’t learned their lesson. They decide to make a new Captain

Underpants comic, and once they are done they try to use one of the students’ machines to make

George Beard and Harold Hutchins are the class clowns Jerome Horwitz Elementary

School. The two are best friends and make comics about a superhero called Captain Underpants.

They also pull many pranks that get them into all sorts of trouble. However, their Principal, Mr.

Krupp, isn’t amused by their “jokes” and is always trying to find a way to punish them. He soon

finally catches the boys and punishes them, but the George and Harold get out of their punishment

Greg Heffley has never been good in sport, nor has he ever been very interested in them.

In fact, he has decided that he shouldn’t have any affair with sports at all. However, everything

changes when Greg’s mom gets him to try out for basketball, and he somehow makes the team

despite his bad performance. Now Greg has to try and make it through the season, but things aren’t

looking so good for Heffley and his team. Will Greg awaken the inner athlete inside of him, or

will he mess everything up?

The Aquanaut by Dan Santat was a moving, fun graphic novel about marine life and the meaning of family. You meet Sophia, the daughter of Michel who dies in the sinking of vessel that he and his brother were using to research the sea. During this sinking, Paul ends ups surviving and is left to take care of Sophia. Paul is quite busy with his work, leaving Sophia alone a lot. One day an old diving suit appears out of the water. What the people don’t know is that it’s operated by marine animals.

Yotsuba is about a small girl named, well, Yotsuba!  In this book follow her as she comprehends criticism about her art, swears revenge after watching a gangster movie, and goes to buy cake! From the creator of Azumanga Daioh, Kiyohiko has done amazing work on this book.

This book follows the story of teenager Craig Gilner. He wants to succeed but nearly kills himself over it. The book follows his journey with his mental health and all the ups and downs along the way. To me, the book was in a way very relatable, which I personally always love in a book. The way that Craig reacted to situations and simply the things he struggled with as a teen, is very compelling and I sort of saw myself in him a little bit, as I am also a teenager.

Tsukimi Kurashita is a young girl living in Tokyo, Japan. Ever since she was little, she’s had a fascination with jellyfish. She lives in an apartment called Amamizukan, a haven for girls with strange interests. But one day, she runs into a “stylish” or at least that’s what everyone in Amamizukan calls them. But little does she know that there may be more to this woman than she thinks. . .

Catch Me if You Can is a semi-autobiographical novel based on the novel’s author, Frank W. Abagnale, criminal venture into being a con-man and exploiting multiple companies and the FBI. In this partly fictionalized yet riveting story, the reader follows Abagnale’s criminal beginnings as a teenager to his attempts to become a law-abiding citizen in adulthood.

Wink is a weird and not so enjoyable fiction novel by Rob Harrel. This book is about a kid named Ross, one day in the middle of summer he finds a big lump on his right eye. Ross gets diagnosed with a rare eye cancer, at school, he is known as the cancer kid. Ross has to deal with a lot of stuff like his eye goo, winking, and bullies. I love the way the author adds funny comics and pictures to describe the story, but the way the author presented the book wasn’t enjoyable to me.

Nate, president of the robotics team, wants the school funding to focus on their needs. Charlie, the captain of the basketball team, wants the school funding to go towards getting the cheerleaders new clothes. Both parties decide to enter a robot battle competition to win $10,000, which will be able fund both clubs. What happens next? Read more to find out!