Reviews for Crashing the Boards #1

The average rating for Crashing the Boards #1 based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-04-10 00:00:00 Mandie Warren main character is a real jerk to his friends

Review # 2 was written on 2012-07-11 00:00:00 Dinae Davison I'd forgotten I'd read this already until I was about twenty pages in. Still, it was a good book and a good way to round off the plague year. Matthew has Moved Away. Yes, despite Deposit, OH, and leaving Polk Street School, this is still a book of angst and elementary school Issues. It's kind of a win for Matthew. He didn't have a best friend at Polk Street and he was always the kid who smelled like he wet the bed. Here he says that Richard Beast is his best friend but Beast's best friend is totally Emily Arrow. Matthew can use a clean slate. And he has a new friend named JD, who's a short-haired, weird girl with baggy, polka dot clothing. Matthew wants to be friends with a kid who draws an ear of corn on his stomach too, but JD and Corn don't like each other. This remains unresolved but Matthew does think of ideas to reconcile them. This book is slightly longer and more mature (third grade) than the Polk Street School books. I loved how Matthew goes from being a Special Reading kid at Polk Street to an avid reader here: JD gives him a book to impress the teacher and he carries it around and decodes half of it but thinks it's darn funny. In the end, he tells the teacher he can't read and she says he can, he reads all the time, and he realizes he has been, and he wants to read all the books now.