Synopses & Reviews
Kaboom Academy, a new and alternative school for middle-grade kids, is chock-full of innovative methods of instruction and discipline that are soon to be tested on the middle-school students of Horsemouth, New Hampshire. Now, meet the class of Journalism 1A. These group of nine misfits are the staff of The Daily Dynamite, Kaboom Academy's quarterly newspaper. As their school year kicks off with a boom, literally, the students of Journalism 1A are about to discover what really goes on at Kaboom Academy and who's really in charge of this groundbreaking school for boys and girls who've fallen out of love with learning.
Synopsis
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Graduates of Wayside School will fit right in at the decidedly unconventional Kaboom Academy. Kirkus Reviews
Forget everything you know about middle school while reading this amusing and lighthearted story that] pokes fun at traditional education, while celebrating nonconformity, individuality, and even oddity (School Library Journal).
A new middle school has just opened in Horsemouth, New Hampshire: Kaboom Academy. It s a place where cannons go off in the middle of school assemblies, pills contain actual information, and multiplication is made, er, real. (Read: You ever wonder what it would be like if there were two of you? How about four? How about eight? Well, you re about to find out ) The school s new students and the Journalism 1A class in particular can t believe all the shenanigans that go on. Who s really in charge of this groundbreaking academy for boys and girls who ve fallen out of love with learning? And what does it mean to blow up the model for middle school ?
A 2015 Children's Choice"
About the Author
MAIYA WILLIAMS was editor and vice president of the Harvard Lampoon and a writer/producer for TV shows including Rugrats, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and Mad TV. She is the author of a time travel trilogy that includes the critically acclaimed books The Golden Hour, Hour of the Cobra, and Hour of the Outlaw. She lives with her husband, three children, two dogs, two guinea pigs, and a variety of fish in Pacific Palisades, California.