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Nate told Francis he was frightened of cats, and Francis told Nate that his middle name was "Butthurst". In fifth grade, Nate had a field trip to an aquarium. When he didn't do his science work for that day, he claimed that a walrus ate it. Towards the end of the year, the school's detention monitor, Mrs. Czerwicki , had her wig catch on fire. The fire alarm went off, and the school got to play Ultimate Frisbee on the school lawn for an hour. When Nate started sixth grade, P.
This is when he joined the Junior Woodchucks. Nate showed him around the school, although Teddy was very quiet. They were both in the same science class, and when they had to dissect a squid, Teddy put the squid in his nose to look like a booger. They both started laughing, and got in trouble. The squid fell on the floor, and Mary Ellen Popowski stepped on it. When Nate made fun of her, they both had two weeks of detention. Nate had a dream about Mrs. Godfrey , his social studies teacher, asking a question in class. Godfrey called on Nate, although he didn't raise his hand.
He didn't know the answer, and asked, "What was the question again? Godfrey marched over to Nate's desk. He then woke up, and realized he was dreaming. Relieved, he went back to sleep, when his dad yanked off the blanket telling him to go to school. He forgot if he had a test that day or not, so he decided to peek on Francis Pope , his best friend next door.
Francis was reading his social studies textbook. Nate panicked because he left his textbook in his locker, meaning he couldn't study. He tried finding his class notes, but he doodled on the notes. When his dad served him breakfast, Nate imagined his vision of going to summer school - cleaning the classrooms. Just then, Nate's sister, Ellen, walked in and ate her oatmeal. Nate's dad asked the kids about school; Ellen chatted incessantly, while Nate told him nervously that nothing has happened.
This made Nate's dad suspicious, and Nate escaped the house. He tripped over Spitsy , his neighbor 's dog, and started to consider ways to skip the test, but came up with flaws of failing the steps. Finally, he decided to write an excuse note, but was worried about forging his father's signature. Francis appeared behind him, and Nate hid away his note, but decided to confess what he was doing.
Confused, Francis told Nate there is no test. The school bell rang, and Nate walked to P. Nate tripped and fell, and that's when Teddy Ortiz , Nate's other best friend, appeared and made a lame joke. The three decided to race to the school. Nate was in the lead, only to slam into the school principal, Principal Nichols. They both got up, and apologized. They then entered the school. It turned out Nate forgot his lunch. Teddy covered for him by promising to share his lunch and giving him a fortune cookie.
Nate opened the cookie, and got surprised by the fortune which said: Nate went to homeroom with his classmates. He got hungry, and ate the fortune cookie, but Gina Hemphill-Toms , his enemy, told on him. Godfrey, Nate's homeroom teacher, started walking towards Nate's desk, so he quickly swallowed the cookie. The announcements turned on, and Nate started to blank out. He later took out a list of all of Mrs. Godfrey's nicknames , but Mrs. Godfrey noticed it and gave Nate a detention.
Nate exited the room after class, along with Francis and Teddy. They were greeted by Artur Pashkov and Jenny Jenkins. In English, Nate decided to write a poem about Jenny as Mrs. Clarke went over the types of poems students can write. Nate settled on writing a love poem to Jenny, but Gina noticed it and with her tedious tattletale tendencies, told the whole classroom about it. Jenny was repulsed, and everyone stared at Nate.
Nate, Teddy, and Francis headed off, where they saw drawings on a display case. They congratulated Artur, who walked by them and headed to art class. Nate tried to get Mr. Rosa , the art teacher, to put his drawing in the display case, but Mr. Rosa said he had no time. Nate sneaked out of the room to put his drawing on display, but when trying to open the display case, the doorknob broke off.
Rosa heard this, and gave Nate his third detention. Later the three friends went to the cafetorium , only to see Chester Budrick , a bully, at their table. They were scared to ask him to move, so they sat next to Chad Applewhite , who was reading the book of records. Nate thought about setting a record, and settled on an eating record.
Nate received his fourth detention. They were late for gym with Coach John , whom Nate disliked. Coach John told Nate to dress for class. He went in to the locker room, when he realized there was bean juice all over his mouth. He leaned over the sink counter to wash his face, but water stained his shorts. He was worried everyone would think he wet his pants, so he started searching for something else to wear.
Luckily, Nate found a pair of shorts, although they were way too over-sized. He stuffed them with towels in them to make it fit. He exited the locker room, but was confused by the other students laughing, until he realized he was wearing Coach John's shorts. Furious, Coach John forced Nate to run wind sprints.
At the end of class, he was given a detention slip. After gym, Francis, Teddy, and Nate, walked over to math class. When they arrived, Mr. Staples gave them a pop quiz.
Nate looked at the quiz and found it surprisingly easy. When he finished it, the everyone else was still working, to his satisfaction. Staples announces the quiz is over and tells everyone to "check your answers front and back". When Nate heard this, he flipped over his test, and saw that there were more questions on the back.
As students handed back quizzes, Nate went crazy and randomly answered questions. They both pulled it, which tore it in half. The teacher was outraged and gave Nate another detention. Nate walked with Francis and Teddy to science, the last class of the day. When Nate noticed Mr. Galvin , his science teacher, he decided to try and make him laugh, because he had never seen him laugh.
It was very hard to do, and when Nate noticed an ink stain on Mr. Galvin's shirt, he started laughing. He received his another detention. At the end of the day, Nate later went to the detention room, where he gave Mrs. Czerwicki , the detention monitor, his detention slips. She looked at the slips and told Nate he had broken a record. He realized that his fortune You will surpass all others has came true, which rendered Nate ecstatic.
Nate happily proceeded to his desk. Shipulski 's bulletin board. They made fun of each other's baby pictures and Nate started looking for Jenny's picture. He found it, but Gina claimed that the picture of Jenny was of her. Nate didn't believe her but Gina took the picture and showed proof. When Nate found out he was the captain of his team, he got confident he would win. Randy showed up and taunted him because he wasn't a very good player. Nate said, "It's not just about being good at sports". Randy was confused, and Nate lured him to his locker, and opened it. He was bombarded with an avalanche of junk, causing Randy much humiliation as well as an obsession with revenge against Nate.
He said, "You have to be able to out-think your opponent". Unfortunately, due to some tension with Mr. Galvin, Nate missed the captains' meeting and forgot telling Coach Calhoun the name of his team, causing him to lose some advantages and getting a horrible start to the season. When he finally arrived, he learned Gina had joined the team and that Calhoun had allowed her to name them the Kuddle Kittens.
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The team's etymology is soon revealed to be off Gina's stuffed cat, named Kuddles , which made Nate feel like he would vomit. In the first match, the Kuddle Kittens lost when Gina distracted Nate from hitting the ball, making Nate furious. Afterwards, they continued against several other teams, and won every time.
Nate also included much information concerning the event in " Poor Nate's Almanac ," which is named after "Poor Richard's Almanac," published by Benjamin Franklin. He also included activities and gossip, among other things. Unfortunately, when he attempted to sell copies to Francis and Teddy, Principal Nichols showed up and forced Nate to close up shop. When Nate was moving the table, however, Randy ran into it while he was taunting Chad, causing him a bloody nose. Clarke intervened, she gave Randy a detention.
In the final game, which pitted the Kuddle Kittens against the Raptors Randy's team , Randy purposely stomped on Nate's foot, swelling it in an attempt for revenge. Nate was forced to watch the game from the bleachers while Gina swung which he was not confident about. But when Gina hit the ball, it hit over the banner, giving Kuddle Kittens a victory to the game. Gina then taunted Nate over her hit. On Chad's suggestion, Nate wrote a story about their victory. When Gina peered over to see what he was writing, she became furious, screaming and earning herself a detention from the librarian, Mrs.
Hickson and the first, and currently, only one she has ever received. Nate helped Artur hold up a ladder. Artur was on top of the ladder, painting. He got paint in Nate's eyes, and he lost control of the ladder. Nate ended up getting a detention. After detention, he tried to ride his skateboard to Teddy's house, for his Timber Scout meeting.
He loses it in a creek , so he started walking. He was late, and was mad at Artur, for many reasons. But he is delighted to learn of a door-to-door sale for his scout troop, and is determined to win against Artur. He was supposed to sell Warm Fuzzies , which are wall hangings. At first, he doesn't have much luck.
He soon decided to buy the wall hangings with his own money. To get the money, he mowed lawns, did yard work, and tried to sell his comics. Nate tried to announce to the entire mall in the speakers to buy his comics. He was busted by a mall cop and got grounded. Nate also tried to get Artur and Gina together, so he could have more time to sell. Nate told Artur how "nice" and "cute" Gina was. Artur percived that Nate liked Hin, and announced it to the school.
He was humiliated, but explained to Gina what happened, and they both agreed that they hate each other's guts. Nate ended up winning first prize for the wall hangings sale, and won a customizable skateboard. Nate competes against Jefferson Middle School when the students end up there when P. During that time, he also uncovered Jefferson's weakness: To prove it, he initiated the Ultimate Snowdown , which was another attempt to defeat Jefferson. Nate told Ken Rosa and Mrs. Everett about it and convinced them to act as the judges for the contest. Minutes before the competition began, Nate and Teddy expressed curiosity when the Jefferson students brought something hidden under cloth on a sled.
As everyone organized their building posts, Jefferson hanged a tarp so no one would notice them using their mascot. Everybody began work for the next six hours. Under Nate's leadership, P. When it was 3: After the celebration, Everett asked why they chose Achilles out of anyone, and Nate explained it was iconic to the "Achilles' heel" expression.
Staring at a furious Nolan, Nate added that no one is unbeatable. They had finally surpassed Jefferson Middle School. Nate makes an enemy with an obnoxious classmate named Nick Blonsky when he stole a camera to start a rigged fight between him and Francis. Later still, his school is introduced to a new "Fitness Zone," which he is very upset about. At this point, his luck seems to decrease rapidly, leading to a series of incidents he was not responsible for causing. This included Teddy accidentally soaking his book report, sitting in gum and getting laughed at, and being embarrassed while reading a different report to the class.
However, this changes for him when he learns Chad Applewhite has found a good luck charm, though he does not believe in it at first. After he fails to remember the lyrics to a song he and his band were expected to perform, Chad offers to let him borrow the foot, and Nate reluctantly agrees.
The tables turn when he scores an impossible basketball goal from halfway across the court, receives 20 dollars when he locates a piece of jewelry, and wins a year's supply of Cheez Doodles his favourite snack by being the millionth customer to shop at an unknown store. He also warms up to the Fitness Zone, to an extent. Finally, he gives the lucky foot back to Chad when he is having trouble with a girl named Maya whom the latter has developed a crush on.
However, it is then stolen by Mrs. Godfrey, leading to trouble at the following Field Day event. However, Nate orchestrates a plan with Artur to help his team win the event. Travelling through the Middle East and Asia in the s, Byron provides detailed descriptions of Islamic architecture, with pungent asides: Having more reason to do so, they are more polite; in other words, they have learnt not to try it on, when they meet a European.
This makes Damascus a pleasant city from the visitor's point of view. George W Bush read it on holiday when he was President.
From his reassuring first sentence — "You know more than you think you do" — he revolutionised the way parents thought about their children, asserting the right to cuddle, comfort and follow your instincts. He also tells you how to deal with croup.
He has also been known to be afraid of cats on some occasions, as he suffers from ailurophobia. Sign In Don't have an account? Nate's most notable trait is his jet-black hair, which has seven smooth spikes, which always springs back up when he tries to make it flat. Wolper Productions Larry Harmon Pictures. He has a talent for sports, comic trivia, chess , detecting and deciphering things with his sense of smell, cartooning, and coming up with pranks for Prank Day.
It ends with the words "I love you" scribbled in the margins of the imaginary journal that forms the substance of the novel. Ill at ease with others? You will if you read this. Creepy bit of mind-mechanics by the indifferent sci-fi novelist who founded Scientology. Complicated teen Holden Caulfield at large in the big city, working out his family and getting drunk.
You've probably read it, be honest. William Blake said that if we could cleanse the "doors of perception" we would perceive "the infinite". Huxley thought mescalin was the way to do so. In this essay, he pops a pill, goes on about "not-self" and "suchness", and decides love is the ultimate truth. He also took LSD when dying, but hardly stuffed it down the way his fans did. Jim Morrison was one: O is a beautiful woman who submits to the sadistic whims of various men after she is kidnapped and taken to a chateau to be blindfolded, whipped, branded and pierced.
It ends with an odd sense of triumph, O wearing nothing but a mask before a group of strangers. Bewildering, creepy and joyless, it's a guaranteed detumescent. Modesty was not one of his virtues; nor, sadly, was literary ability. It is the result of seven years of road-trips across America during the s. Initially it celebrates the alternative lifestyle, although by the end it is coloured by disappointment. In November , A long-lost letter sent to Keroac from writer Neal Cassady was found after more than half a century. After reading it Kerouac ripped up an early draft of On the Road and spent three weeks re-writing the novel to mimic its stream of consciousness style.
The note - an page rambling stream of consciousness written by fellow writer Neal Cassady to his friend in - had been considered one of the greatest losses in literary history. An ineradicable elegy for a vanished society, and, despite its risorgimento setting, still the best psychological and botanical guidebook to parts of southern Italy. Made it possible for the middle classes to embrace the Mediterranean. On February 3 , Harper announced that Go Set a Watchman, a novel the Pulitzer Prize-winning author completed in the Fifties and put aside, will be released July Rediscovered last autumn, Go Set a Watchman is essentially a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, although it was finished earlier.
The page book will be Lee's second, and the first new work in more than 50 years. Literary history would be entirely different if Heller had followed his original intention and called it Catch Through the conflict between Nurse Ratched and McMurphy, the novel explores the theme of how individuals are crushed and of rebellion against conformity. Unforgettable stuff, after which mazes and mirrors will never be the same again.
Often beloved of the kind of person who agrees with its author that "there is a kind of lazy pleasure in useless and out-of-the-way erudition", and none the worse for that. The narrator is a talented writer who arrives in New York with every opportunity before her, but buckles. The Bell Jar became a rallying call for a better understanding of mental illness, creativity and the impact on women of stifling social conventions.
Plath killed herself a month after its publication. The first in an increasingly soap-operatic sequence. Like most John Fowles, this is solid middlebrow dressed as highbrow, but stunning setdressing, TS Eliot quotations and a twist at the end guaranteed a lifelong place in the hearts of a certain type of bookish male. Essential stuff, and with the finest description of a headache yet committed to paper. Chariots of the Gods: Was God An Astronaut? To a generation of readers it fostered a burning envy that they had not been in San Francisco when the Kool-Aid dispensers were being spiked with "Purple Haze".
Now a vivid social history of a period that seems as remote as Byzantium. Like much of Vonnegut's stuff, this is savage anger barely masked by urbane anthropological sarcasm. Very much a defining cult novel. Later, he resigned for gross corruption, a fitting punishment for his dreadful taste. Greer told a generation of women that society had turned them into meek, self-hating, castrated clones. The book was an international best-seller which earned Greer a mixed but enduring legacy.