War Between the Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids [Paperback]

Stanley Kiesel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1982

After years of persecution schoolchildren led by Skinny Malinky finally declare war on their teachers and the system they represent.

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Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Avon Books (Mm) (January 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380578026
• ISBN-13: 978-0380578023
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #473,606 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Little-known but a goodie, September 28, 2000

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Jean "halonine" (The Ivory Tower) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The War Between the Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids (Unicorn Book) (Hardcover)

I've always remembered reading this book, a surreal and really rather sinister and apocalyptic tale of kids on the run in the name of individuality. The premise bears a lot of similarity to the 1998 movie Disturbing Behavior, with parents zombifying their kids in order to make them behave, but minus the "mature themes". If anything, one could say it was like Disturbing Behavior meets Logan's Run, written for sixth-graders. It's a little-known, but definite, gem.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Odd, yet splendid., July 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: War Between the Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids (Paperback)

I first remember noticing this book in the first few weeks of seventh grade, sitting in the back of my English teacher's small library. Somehow, the concept of a group of kids rebelling against the petty teachers and mindless rules of the school appealed to me. Gee, I could never figure out why. The whole book is odd, though. Stanley Kiesel seems to have created a whole universe of his own yet he never fully lets us in on it all. The book's climax and coda shows us these new kids' societies Kiesel imagines -- the Bookworms, of course, being the utterly coolest. But my big question is, among all the wars and the subsequent stories afterwards, were are the parents?

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The book that taught me to love reading., December 9, 1998

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Joal Dennis ([e-mail]) (Merietta, Ga) - See all my reviews

This review is from: War Between the Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids (Paperback)

I bought this book when I was in elementary school. I read it and was so taken aback that I read it over. It was so creative that, for the first time, I was swept into a story. I would lose all track of time. Like the bookworms I started to take the book to the dinner table with me. I've read a dozen times since then and always come back to it when I think about the greatest book I've ever read.