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There's Treasure Everywhere

By: Bill Watterson
For every kid who hates mean teachers, distracted babysitters, and unidentifiable dinners
Kelly: ☻☻☻☻☻
Boy Reader: ☻☻☻☻
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This evergreen comic from the 1980's and 1990's was one of my favorites in middle school and has hooked Boy Reader all these years later. We review "There's Treasure Everywhere," but recommend any Calvin and Hobbes book you can get your hands on. Boy Reader has requested "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes" for his birthday.

Calvin is a precocious six-year-old who says all the things you wish you were uninhibited and clever enough to say, to wit:

​His teacher gives him a test with the question, "What happened in Concord in 1775?"

Calvin answers, "Let's be honest. You're asking me about Concord? I rely on the bus driver to find my own house from here. Concord could be on Neptune for all I know. And what happened 220 years ago?? I'm a kid. I don't know what's going on now​. I don't have a shred of context for any of this. It's hopeless, Miss Wormwood, hopeless."

​The Calvin and Hobbes comic strips accommodate a wide range of reading levels. The picture clues, short bites of reading, and laugh out loud humor keep it enjoyable for reluctant middle grade readers. For more advanced readers, challenging vocabulary is sprinkled throughout: inscrutable, evocative, demoralize, subjugate, cretaceous, temporal.

​Boy Reader has a message for Bill Watterson, "Please write more!"

Boyz Readz by Kelly Mroz

  • Home
  • About
  • Reviews
    • The BFG
    • The Black Pearl
    • Ella Enchanted
    • Every Falling Star
    • Frindle
    • From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
    • Grandmaster
    • Gregor the Overlander
    • Half Magic
    • The Martian
    • Nocturnals
    • The One and Only Ivan
    • Pay It Forward
    • Peak
    • Phineas Gage
    • Prisoner B-3087
    • The Quirks: Welcome to Normal
    • Ranger's Apprentice
    • The Red Pyramid
    • Simon Bloom: The Gravity Keeper
    • Spy X -- The Code
    • There's Treasure Everywhere
    • Upside-Down Magic
    • The Whisperer
    • Wings of Fire
    • The Worst Class Trip Ever
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