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Horrible Harry and the Green Slime

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Once again horrible Harry is out and about learning and having fun. In this book, Harry learns about what it means to be a friend. He also has to teach about the dangers of smoking. The final chapters of this book are pure fun.

My son is at the difficult age of 7. He is ready to give up simple picture books, and Dr. Seuss but isn't ready for Harry Potter books. Horrible Harry books make for a good transition.

This book has four chapters. In the first chapter the class picked secret pals. In the second chapter the principal found a cigarette under a cafeteria table. After that the class drew posters about the bad effects of smoking. In the third chapter they read Charlotte's Web. They put cobwebs all over the school. In the last chapter Harry taught the class how to spike their hair. My favorite chapter is The Demonstration. Why? Because I would like to give a demonstration to my class. I think other kids my age will like this book because it has many funny parts.

My 7-years old daughter Andrea wrote this review:
This 4-chapter book by Suzy Kline is about Harry who is full of horrible ideas. Chapter 1 is about secret pals each student in the class picked for learning about writing and new friendship. At the end Harry learned true friendship. The next chapter is about Harry leading the group in a skit showing the danger of smoking. In Chapter 3 Harry and the class, after reading Charlotte's Web, put cobwebs in the principal's office and all over the school. In the final chapter Harry demonstrated to others how to make green slime. Sydney spiked the principal's hair!
I Recommend this book to all 2nd graders.

Horrible Harry and the Green Slime is about Harry and his class needing to do a science experiment. They had to show their experiment in front of the class. Harry made green slime and the kids thought it was cool. Then Harry gave it to the librarian who gave it to her husband because he loves science. I would recommend this book because Horrible Harry is always mischievious and that makes reading the story fun and interesting.

Horrible Harry and the Green Slime by Suzy Kline

Have you ever been very horrible? Well, if you
have you should read this book. Horrible Harry and
the Green Slime by Suzy Kline will give you very
horrible ideas. Harry is putting slime into the
principles hair. I recommend this book to a reader
that can understand friendship and horrible things.

Great book and series of books for the younger reader in the family. Also a great way to get that younger person interested in reading.

We LOVE horrible harry books. I think I like them as much as my boys. They are clever and well thought out. Perfect books for elementary school students that are just starting to read chapter books.

This Horrible Harry book tells the ending of Charlotte's Web. What's particularly frustrating with this is that Charlotte's web is a higher level book than the horrible harry books. Most kids reading horrible harry have not read Charlotte's Web yet. My daughter enjoys horrible harry and read them last year, but now that we are reading Charlotte's Web, she already knows Charlotte's fate which has detracted significantly from the story. I'm shocked that an author would ruin the ending of another author's book. Very disappointing, and as a result, I can't give the book more than 1 star (would give zero if I could).

I have a one sided opinion of the Harry books. Mrs. Kline was my teacher and I was part of the creation of the Harry character. I loed readimgs these books in class before they were finished so that all of us could gve our ideas. Harry and Herbie Jones should be read in schools today. This book brought so much fun to the classroom and school.

Horrible Harry and the Green Slime
My 6 year old was ready for books with more depth than the younger kid books. However most of the chapter books are too long and too wordy, no pictures, and the theme is more than my son is ready for. Then I found the Horrible Harry series.

They are shorter chapter books with a few pictures. Each story is warm and friendly. We instantly fell in love with the teacher, Miss Mackle, and her class. Horrible Harry isn't horrible at all. He has a strong sense of right and wrong. Sidney on the other hand is a bit of a pain and sometimes Harry, rightly puts him in his place. Harry stands up for the more vulnerable kids when they need it. And sometimes he even stands up for Sid the Squid.

This particular book has the kids performing demonstrations for the class. Even the principal gets into the action making this school sound like a good old fashioned involved community of adults who care about the children in their care. They leave a good feeling about school, learning and the camaraderie of the children, even when they sometimes have conflict.

My boy loved the idea of a kid being horrible and is thrilled when Harry is mildly horrible, like shaking hands with Sid, while he has a small piece of banana in his hand. Sid who is squeamish is told it was a caterpillar that he squashed.