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The Boys Start the War (Boy/Girl Battle)

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Just when the Hatfords were expecting three boys to move into the house the river,where their best friends used to live , the Malloy girls arrive instead . Wally and his brothers decided to make them so misrable that they will want to move back to Ohio , but they havent counted on what the girls had on mind!From dead fish to dead bodies, floating cakes to floating heads, the pranks and tricks continue - First with the boys, then the girls - until someone is taken prisoner!

What wonderful stories! I read the first one to my third graders and they loved it! They couldn't wait for me to read aloud each day. When I found out there were two more: The Girl's Get Even and Boys Against Girls, my class was thrilled and begged me to read them as well. Now I found out there is a fourth! (The Girl's Revenge.) I can't wait to take that one in to read to my class! These will definitely be ones I read to my third graders every year.

The Boys Start the War by Phyllis Reynolds is a great story. It tells how four boys and three girls play tricks on each other. Everyday Jake, Josh, Wally, Peter, Caroline, Eddie, and Beth seem to play tricks like when the boys put dead animals in the lake the girls swim in. The girls always find a way to get back at the boys like when they throw a cake the boys’ mom made in the lake. There’s a lot of excitement in this book.

The name of this book is The Boys Start the War/ The Girls Get Even by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. This book is a really good book. The Hatford boys are playing tricks on their new neighbors the Malloy girls. Now the Malloys girls are really mad and have to get back at them. The Malloy girls are Eddie (whose real name is Edith Ann but hates it) 11 years old, Beth who is ten and Caroline who is eight, but is in third grade. The Hatford boys names and ages are Josh and Jake who are 11 (they are twins.), Wally is nine and Peter who is seven. The Hatford boys and the Malloy girls are playing tons of tricks on each other. To find out what happens read The Boys Start the War/ The Girls Get Even.

This book is about a group of brothers and a group of sisters. When the girls move into the boys' neighborhood, the boys want them to move away. The boys play a nasty trick on the girls. As revenge, the girls play a trick on the boys, and so on. I recommend this book to anyone who likes humor, and wants to read about the weirdest feud ever!

Have you ever met some boys that you really hate? The three Malloy sisters Eddie, Caroline and Beth have. They just moved from Ohio to Buckman, West Virginia. They just so happened to move into the house where the Hatford brothers, Wally, Peter, Jake and Josh's, best friends the Bensons used to live. The Bensons told the Hatfords that if they were having trouble renting out their old house in Buckman they will come back. The Hatfords think if they can make the Malloy girls miserable enough they will go back to Ohio, and the Bensons will come back to Buckman.So now the boys have started a sort of mini war between themselves and the girls. Until their little practical jokes go too far and Caroline is taken prisoner in their shed. This was a great book. If you like excitement this is the book for you!

When the Hatfors brothers' best friends, the Bensons, move away, the Malloy sisters move into their old house. The Hatfors, determined to make to Malloys move and the Bensons move back in, start a prank war. In the Girls Get Even, the girls try to get back at them with everything they've got!

Wally Hatford is a 10 year old boy who started a war between the Hatfords and the Malloys. He has three brothers, Peter, Josh, and Jake. The Malloys just moved in from Ohio to the Bensons' (The Hatfords' best friends) old house, and the boys want to want to oust the Malloy girls, Caroline, Beth, and Eddie (Edith) out of Buckman.

Wally is in Mrs. Applebaum's class, right in front of Caroline, the wanna be actress. He is the mastermind for the boys in the war between the Hatfords and the Malloys. Wally wants peace between the boys and girls to see how long it takes for a waffle box to travel down the river, to jump off a tree, and to climb a church steeple.

I could relate to Wally. He is like a kid in my class named Jake. Jake, like Wally, can think up of ideas to win a war against anybody, boy, girl, or parent. Jake also is curious of just things in normal life.

The Boys Start the War is a book just for children seeing that adults aren't interested in wars between boys and girls. It is easy to understand all of the humor and vocabulary in the book. I loved the book and went on to read the whole series.

This delightful above-average children's book has a familiar theme to it: the age-old feud between two ancient clans, the boys and the girls. It boasts well-developed characters and some truly funny, well-written moments. The Malloy family of three girls moves to the town of Buckman, West Virginia, into a house that is across the river from the four Hatford brothers. The Malloy girls are 11-year-old tomboy Eddie, 10-year-old sci fi bookworm Beth, and 8-year-old intelligent, aspiring actress Caroline. The Hatford boys are 11-year-old prankster Jake, his quieter, artistic twin Josh, 9-year-old creative force Wally, and 7-year-old naive Peter. The boys decide to declare war on their new neighbors, hoping to drive the girls back to Ohio. But they haven't considered the counterattacks the girls are capable of.

The Girls Get Even is not as fresh as its predecessor, but still cute and amusing. The boy-girl feud continues in the second installment of the series. Beth, Caroline, and Eddie follow the boys on their camping trip at Smuggler's Cove with hilarious results. Both clans enter the Halloween costume parade hoping to win the contest. Caroline's fourth grade class puts on a Halloween play called The Goblin Queen, in which Caroline gets to show up Wally. Still smarting over each other's tricks, they each come up with a plan for Halloween night. Trick or treat indeed.

I bought this book for my son. He really enjoyed it. It was in great condition and it got here quickly.