Big Nate Strikes Again the Napping House
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| Author | Lincoln Peirce |
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| Illustrator | Lincoln Peirce |
| Country | United states of america |
| Language | English |
| Series | Big Nate |
| Genre | Comedy Fictional Children's novel Comic strip |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Publication engagement | October 19, 2010 |
| Media type | Impress (Paperback and Hardcover) |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9780062009326 |
| Preceded by | Big Nate: In a Class by Himself |
| Followed by | Big Nate: On a Coil |
Big Nate Strikes Once more is a realistic fiction novel by American cartoonist Lincoln Peirce. It is based on the comic strip and the second book in the Big Nate novel series. The book was released on October 19, 2010. Information technology is aimed at children anile viii to 12. It was published by HarperCollins Publishers. The book has a 13,928 auction rank.
Plot [edit]
At Nate Wright's school, a lath of the students' infant pictures is put up. Nate and his friend Teddy expect at the pictures, and subsequently noticing that in his picture, Nate is trying to put a square toy in a circle peg, Teddy teases Nate for existence a stupid baby. Nate points out Gina's picture, considering he thought it was his crush, Jenny's picture. Nate calls the picture 'cute', but Gina arrives and ridicules Nate. In Mrs. Godfrey's first flow social studies class, she assigns the students a research paper on a keen American figure, which they volition be doing with a randomly drawn partner. While Teddy is paired upward with his friend Francis, Nate is partnered with Gina, much to their dismay. Afterward 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'southward intramural fleece brawl tournament (intramural sports are referred to as SPOFFs by the students). Subsequently Nate'due south rival, Randy, discovers that he is a captain as well 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 science course and being sent to the library, Nate decides to read books near Benjamin Franklin for his research project, and becomes very interested in him. After he returns to his science class where he receives a lecture from Mr. Galvin, he realizes that he missed the fleece brawl captain'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 good players. However, it likewise included Gina, who is non very athletic.
When Nate returns domicile to think of a name for his team, he gets a phone call from Gina to check on his progress, at which point his dad gets the wrong thought almost the two of them, and causing Nate's sister Ellen to starting time bragging about her success in middle school. While Nate went upstairs to come up with a squad proper noun, his neighbour's dog, Spitsy, gives him an idea for a team name: the "Psycho Dogs". When Nate arrives at school, Randy chases him to get revenge on Nate's locker trick the other day, resulting in Nate getting to go to the library to do research on his product, and Randy getting in trouble with the principal for running in the school. Later writing some Ben Franklin comics, Nate goes to Art class, where he makes a good luck amuse for his team, reminding him that he forgot to submit the squad proper noun. Nate gets to Coach Calhoun's office as quickly every bit he can, where he learns that Gina had submitted a squad name already, the "Kuddle Kittens". At dejeuner, Nate plans to become revenge on Gina past dumping egg salad on her, but he accidentally dumps information technology on Jenny instead. After that incident, Nate learns that his team will exist playing Artur'due south team, the "Killer Bees" after school. The Kuddle Kittens show themselves to be the superior squad but all the same struggle due to Gina constantly committing errors to the indicate of ruining Nate's final swing, costing them the game. Nate also tried to tell his passenger vehicle about Gina'southward interference with him, but the motorcoach says that interference could not be called on a teammate, making his team'south loss official.
Two days afterwards, Nate is yet trying to recover from the loss when Gina come over to work on the projection. After she rejects Nate's comics, they get into an argument which leads to them making a bargain: Nate will let Gina write the written report so she tin can ensure her A+ grade average is sustained, and Gina will come up with excuses to go out of playing fleece ball, so Nate'due south team can stand up a meliorate hazard. They shake hands to seal their deal which Nate's dad sees, further convincing him of their fictional relationship. The twenty-four hour period before the project is due and the final fleece brawl game is held, Nate begins to sell copies of "Poor Nate's Almanack", inspired past Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack. The peak story is the big project being due tomorrow, and the current fleece brawl standings, which show that the Kuddle Kittens and the Raptors (pb by Randy) are tied with wins and losses and will compete in the final friction match, also tomorrow. Notwithstanding, Chief Nichols tells Nate that he tin't sell his Almanack during schoolhouse hours and must take down his stand up. As Nate and Teddy motion the table, Randy comes running up with a notebook stolen from Chad, and accidentally runs into the tabular array, giving himself a encarmine olfactory organ. Randy immediately blames Nate, but Ms. Clarke saw what really happened and gives Randy detention, who mutters to Nate that payback time will come tomorrow.
The next day, Gina hands in the Ben Franklin enquiry paper to Mrs. Godfrey, who reveals that she and Nate will receive a failing class due to Gina using unoriginal visual aids, ruining her perfect bookish record. But so Nate shows Mrs. Godfrey his Ben Franklin comics, which she finds delightful for their originality, and their connexion to Ben Franklin being a cartoonist himself. She therefore awards the project an A+, yet Gina is furious every bit she knew the comics she had called garbage are the things that saved her academic record. At the end of the twenty-four hour period, the two fleece ball teams assemble to play the final game, with Gina going through with her part of the deal and sitting out, claiming to have nutrient poisoning. The Kuddle Kittens and the Raptors go dorsum and along between the lead until they are tied at the ninth inning, where Randy tricks Nate into thinking he has an piece of cake out and stomps on Nate'south human foot as hard as he could while making it look like an accident. Nate gets benched with a swelling foot, and Gina decides to play in the residuum of the game. As Nate predicted, Gina missed the brawl on the Raptors' terminal bat and they then lead with ii points. When it is the Kuddle Kittens' terminal plow to bat, Francis and Teddy reach the bases with ii outs, and Gina is upward to bat final. Gina quickly gets ii strikes, causing Nate to endeavor to take her place but Gina remains out, and hits the last throw, resulting in a home run. Autobus Calhoun declares the Kuddle Kittens the winners and gives the Spoffy (the bays awarded at the cease of SPOFFs) to Gina instead of Nate. Later in the library, Nate writes almost the Kuddle Kittens' victory in the latest edition of Poor Nate'due south Almanack, which Gina dislikes because Nate claimed information technology was a lucky hit. They get into a minor argument, which Gina escalates by screaming at Nate nigh how he never studies. This results in Mrs. Hickson, the librarian, writing Gina the first detention she always received. After Gina leaves and claims Nate is cipher like Ben Franklin, Nate disagrees and notes that if Ben Franklin were live today, the ii of them would get forth very well.
Characters [edit]
- Nate Wright - The primary protagonist; a pre-adolescent male child, known for his large ego and sarcasm.
- Teddy Ortiz - Nate'south #1A all-time friend, who is a jokester and known for his skill at Yo mama jokes.
- Francis Pope - Nate'south #1 best friend, who is known for his over-the-acme intelligent quotient, and Nate often calls him a geek.
- Marty Wright - Nate's somewhat clueless male parent, who plays golf and is known to make horrible food.
- Artur Pashkov - Jenny's swain, and Nate's curvation-rival; a Belarusian exchange student and speaks broken English. In the volume, he plays a small office, as his fleeceball team wins over "Kuddle Kittens."
- Gina Hemphill-Toms - The secondary adversary too as Nate's arch-nemesis and Ms. Godfrey'southward favorite student in the class. In the book, she & Nate are assigned to the roles of project partners (due to Nate's original partner being absent), and she ruins Nate's fleeceball squad past joining and giving them the proper name: "Kuddle Kittens," angering Nate. In the end, she hits a home run, winning the team confronting the Raptors, and earning herself the Spoffy, a trophy, Nate was planning on winning.
- Randy Betancourt - One of Nate's rivals; the school bully. In the book, he is the main antagonist; the helm of Nate's opponent fleeceball team: the Raptors.
- Mrs. Clara Godfrey - Nate's ultimate nemesis; his social studies teacher at room 213.
- Ellen Wright - Nate's eleventh-grade abrasive older sis.
- Jenny Jenkins - Nate'southward love interest and Arthur's girlfriend. In the book, similar her boyfriend, she plays a minor role, as she is assigned projection partners with Arthur, and Nate accidentally dumps egg salad all over her (he originally meant to exercise it to Gina).
- Chad Applewhite - One of Nate's friends. Like the previous book, he plays a pocket-sized office, as he is on Nate's fleece ball team, and annoys Nate by cheering on Gina on their match against the Raptors.
Reception [edit]
Critical reception has been positive, with the School Library Journal writing that the book was "clever and funny".[1] Booklist praised the volume's "easy-reading narrative" [2] and Kirkus Reviews chosen the volume "A latter-day Peanuts and a kinder, gentler Diary of a Wimpy Kid."[3]
Run into likewise [edit]
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- The Epic Tales of Helm Underpants Episodes
References [edit]
- ^ Grades 5 & Up
- ^ Big Nate Strikes Once more Booklist
- ^ Big Nate: Strikes Once more Kirkus Reviews
External links [edit]
- Official website
- Official site of the series
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Nate:_Strikes_Again
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