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The Schernoff Discoveries

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The Schernoff Discoveries is a quick moving, funny book about friendship. The story takes place in Minnesota, in two small towns called Hilard and Peat roughly 10 years ago. Gary tells the story about different hilarious challenges two good friends faced at fourteen years of age and what became of them.
I like The Schernoff Discoveries because it is about what happens in school and includes important issues like friendship and dealing with peer pressure. The main characters are Harold and Gary. They are two kids from different sides of the tracks. Harold is smart and daring; Gary is cautious and not so smart. One good example of Harold being daring and Gary being cautious, Harold decided that they needed to go skiing, because girls liked skiers. Harold read in a book on how, even though Gary was against this idea, he went along anyways. They should have listened to Gary. They enjoy school and like girls a lot. They figured out a way to change their schedules so that they would be the only boys in the Home Economics classroom full of girls. This worked for them because they could get to know the girls without competition or insults from other boys. On the downside, the boys were picked on for being the only boys in the room, especially by the football team. With the help of the Home Economics class, the girls and Harold were able to get even with the football team. They enjoy each other's friendship and play jokes on each other, even though others around them make fun of them calling them "geeks" and "nerds".
The story is very funny because during the story Gary talks about things he and Harold have done in the past. Gary is the one telling the story because Harold is the one who is always coming up with ideas for new ways to make money. Harold decided one day that they needed a car. It didn't matter that they weren't old enough to drive. Harold discovered a way for them to make a lot of money at a golf course, which they later used the money to buy the perfect car for a fourteen year old. All through the story Harold helps Gary with bullies and school by playing tricks on the bullies. Gary looks up to Harold because he is smarter than Gary. Gary comments, "Harold is good at everything, except fishing." Harold would try anything he had never tried before, but he would visit the library first. He had never tried fishing and decided he wanted to. He figured that Gary could teach him. Harold came equipped for a major fishing tournament; Gary came with string, hook and worms. This turned into a learning experience; Harold was able to hook everything, except a fish.
I would recommend this book to 6th and 7th graders because it is more at their reading level. Kids hate reading long books, so they will enjoy this quick paced, funny, short book.
This book showed how two friends could overcome bullying and has fun doing it. I like the way the story is being told in the present and the past. This book helps teenagers to relate with the characters. The things that Harold and Gary had to deal with are what so many kids these days deal with. This story shows kids that, you have to keep your head up and not give into peer pressure. Don't let anyone bully you, but most of all don't be a bully to anyone else. Most of all, that a true friend is a good friend.

The book, "The Schernoff Discoveries" by Gary Paulsen was very funny! It tells of Harold, a 14-year-old genius and social outcast, and his friend. Harold has an answer to every problem, from dating, to sports like skiing and fishing, to dealing with school bullies or making money. Harold finds a way to poison the entire football team, get the girls and buy a car while underage. Read on to find out more of Harold's embarassing, yet hilarious stories.

The book is so funny it made me want to read it more and more and over and over again. I hope you like it to.

Harold Schernoff is a fourteen-year-old genius and outcast. He only has one friend, the narrator of this book and fellow outcast. Together these two teenagers investigate the world around them. Harold tries his hand at electricity and nearly electrocutes himself. The two boys set pins at a bowling alley, retrieve golf balls for money and try to learn to ski--most adventures leading to some sort of disaster.

The most important things in the lives of these two teens, though, are avoiding the bullies that plague their lives and trying to get close to the girls in their class who never seem to want to talk to them.

This is an entertaining story of being young and awkward, and of a tight friendship that helps to make the lives of these two teenagers more bearable.

I liked the lighthearted nature of this book. Everything was presented in a way that made it amusing rather than sad, as it could have been. I also liked that in some ways Harold and the narrator were able to get their revenge and to eventually get close to the girls they liked.

However, this book was pretty simplistic and seems to have been written for an audience much younger than the ages of the main characters. I don't think it would keep the attention of a middle-schooler.

This book written by Gary Paulson is a below average comedy. The book is about two fourteen year old boys trying to earn their way out of geekhood and into the status of being cool. That is very hard when one of the boys, Gary, has alcoholic parents, and the other boy, Harold, is a strait A+ student who learns everything (including how to kiss) from a book. They go through everything from picking a fight with a bully, to buying a car while under aged at the age of fourteen. My favorite part was when they tried to learn how to ski. Harold tried to use his butt to slow down. All in all I give this book 3 out of 10 (one and a half stars) because it wasn't a book you could get into and "never want to put down".

I read a book called "The Schernoff Discoveries" written by Gary Paulsen-the best author, who makes the greatest story of all times like "Hatchet"-which is a book and included in his children series. It is one of the funniest books that I ever read in my life. If you are like me, meaning you hate to read and love funny things, you should read this enjoyable short one-hundred and nine page book. The book is about these two teenage boys, two teenage geeky boys, and one of the teenage boys talks about his with his friendship and experience with his determined friend Harold Schernoff-who is very intelligent and tries all of these crazy experiments-on things such as girls, outdoors and etcetera. This book was interested me because it was short, funny, had numerous sorts of imagery, and was a grand adventure, and most of all; it was very easy to understand and also I can compare it to myself. So next time you go to the library or go to the bookstore make sure you grab The Schernoff Discoveries because just like it did to me; it will take you on a grand adventure.

1. In this book there was about five different chapters/discoveries and they were all kind of hard to get interested in.
2. This book when I got finished with it I was kind of like happy that it was over. Sorry, Gary but this book wasn't very good.
3. This book was a book that was mainly for the less popular people, (science freaks mainly) one part was how to get girls to like you, I thought if you can't get a girl to like you without you being yourself you shouldn't get one.
4. The reason why I gave this book only three stars was because it was really hard to get into it.

This is one of my favorite books! Each chapter reads like a short story which makes it perfect for reading out loud. The stories are outrageous, but with a truthful ring. I've recommended it to several students and other teachers to read out loud, and it's always been very well received. Every time I've read the book I've laughed out loud (and I LOVE Harold's first date).

The Schernoff Discoveries was a great book! I especially liked Harold, because he had a solution for everything. To dating girls and bying a car under age, it was really funny as well. Each chapter gives you a lesson and thats what I liked the most. The reason why I gave a for stars because it kind of skiped a lot, sometimes I didn't even understand in some of the areas, but the main story line is easy to understand.

I feel that the book was one of my favorite books. I don't like to read but the book kept me reading no matter what was going on right next to me. The was an all around funny and entertaining book.