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What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything?

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Even though the age range for this book is grades 5-8,Avi has written a collection of short stories that can be enjoyed by students of any age, up to and including high school. From the boy who wants to express his feelings to his parents, but needs them to be "captive" at a restaurant in order to make that happen, to the boy who asks questions with no answers, the characters in this collection are likable, searching, and very much wanting to do the right thing. I would highly recommend this book to English teachers who may be looking for a book of short stories to recommend to their students.

In What Do Fish Have To Do With Anything?: And Other Stories, you always learn your lesson. From kindness to caring, Avi tells 7 tales of mystery and friendship. This book is funny and suspenseful, you never know what will happen next.
While you're reading this book, you can tell how the characters are feeling at all times. If I had written this book, nothing would be changed. I recommend this book to children ages 10-13. Remember, like the stranger across the street said, you always need more than what they say.

Written in the signature Avi methond, this book is about lots of subjects.
Homeless People, Suicide, Ghosts, Divorce, Teachers and alot more. Avi keeps it real, making the things about events that do happen in 5th/6th/7th grades.
I recomend this to anyone who enjous short stories or who like Avi's stranger stories.

This is a perfect read from a young person's point of view! Divorce, death, ghosts, friendship...it has it all!

I have been looking for some short stories for read alouds in my fourth grade classroom. This is great! The kids already love the author from the Poppy series.

(this is written by my 12 yr old daughter)

This book is filled with 7 inspiring stories about kids in 5th, 6th and 7th grades. I had to read this book for school but I would read it on my own any day any place any time. I usually wouldn't read a story by Avi but this book was an exception. I recommend it to kids from 5th to 7th grades.

This book has great stories inside hidden behind its chambers. Some of the stories include "What do fish have to do with anything?", "Teacher Tamer", "The goodness of Matt Kaizer" and many others. One of the books, "The goodness of Matt Kaizer" was about this kid who is a minister's boy and will do any "left open" dare. So, I DARE you to find out Matt Kaizer's future.Will it be good, bad, sad, humorous, or something else? The only way to find out is to read this DARING short story and some of Avi's other short stories.

This book is not very good. It is an easy book, for like 5th graders, Avi is ok, but not one of his best books. The short stories a weird and I don't really like them. Some of them made no sense and wasn't fun to read. In some of them were very suspenseful, and I didn't want to put it down. I am not sure if he made all of these short stories up, since I remebered from so where else. The title is a very weird name for a novel about a lot of short stories. From a book reader that wasn't pleased.

SWIM LIKE A FISH IN THE SEA, BABY! MEGAN THINKS LLAMA'S ARE SEXY BEAST'S! YEA BABY! OH YEA, READ THE BOOK, IT'S GREAT!