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Raymond and Graham Rule the School
A hilarious new series for middlegrade boys! Best friends Raymond and Graham have waited their whole lives for fourth grade, when they?ll rule the school at East Millcreek Elementary. But things don?t go quite as planned when Raymond gets stuck with the most embarrassing line in the class play! Can he find a way out of it, or will he be humiliated in front of everyone? Filled with memorable characters, side-splitting moments, and goofy black-andwhite illustrations, this series is sure to tickle kids? funny bones!
128 pages, Hardcover
First published July 1, 2008
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Mike Knudson
9Ìýbooks4ÌýfollowersMike is six feet, four inches tall and weighs 200 pounds on a good day (a very good day). He and his lovely wife, Annette, have five kids and a turtle named Franklin, who ran away from home this summer. He is still trying to find him.
Mike enjoys the mountains and also loves to vacation at the beach. His favorite thing to do on vacation is to boogie board in the waves and often stays out in the ocean too long and gets a sunburn on the top of his head where he's starting to go bald.
His favorite foods are burritos and oatmeal (not together). Sometimes he cuts his own hair. He can ride a unicycle, annoy people with his banjo playing, and speak Spanish. When he was eight years old he burned down his neighbor's fence (never, never, never play with matches) (NEVER!)
NEVER!
Mike enjoys the mountains and also loves to vacation at the beach. His favorite thing to do on vacation is to boogie board in the waves and often stays out in the ocean too long and gets a sunburn on the top of his head where he's starting to go bald.
His favorite foods are burritos and oatmeal (not together). Sometimes he cuts his own hair. He can ride a unicycle, annoy people with his banjo playing, and speak Spanish. When he was eight years old he burned down his neighbor's fence (never, never, never play with matches) (NEVER!)
NEVER!
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November 5, 2009
These books are so funny--very similar to Diary of a Wimpy Kid in many ways. It's about two 6th grade friends who try their best to be cool, but keep putting themselves in ridiculous situations (eating a jar of prunes, for example). I laughed out loud several times. I think a 6th grader would love these books--they are easy and fun.
September 7, 2018
I enjoy reading this book because they were being savage to be the boss of the school there where acting bossy there were trying to make there own rule.
May 18, 2011
This book was about two boys named Raymond and Graham. They are entering fourth grade which is what they have been dreaming about since 1st grade. Being in the 4th grade means you "rule the school!" They expected this year they expected it to be the best year until the day they found out who their teachers were. They couldn't wait to find out but when they did their hearts dropped. They got the horrible, mean, ugly....MRS. GIBSON. They were so upset until they found out she wasn't acctually THAT bad.
In the book there are many events such as the "Scrooge" play and Raymond doesn;t get the main character, Scrroge, nor does he get and of his second or third choices. He gets Peter instead. Peter says almost nothing and the one line he says is about plum pudding. The closest thing he has at his house to plums is prunes which inspired him to eat many prunes which made him end up in the restroom for a long, very long time. Another time Raymond shaves off Grahams eyebrow which takes a long time to grow back! Raymond also tries to pretend he is sick to skip something.
I rated this book two stars because I felt it was lame. The boys in it were sooo immature which is understandable because they are only in fourth grade but they were annoying! I would suggest this book to young kids and kids who have an immature sense of humor. I don't plan on reading the next book in the series because I didn't like this one.
In the book there are many events such as the "Scrooge" play and Raymond doesn;t get the main character, Scrroge, nor does he get and of his second or third choices. He gets Peter instead. Peter says almost nothing and the one line he says is about plum pudding. The closest thing he has at his house to plums is prunes which inspired him to eat many prunes which made him end up in the restroom for a long, very long time. Another time Raymond shaves off Grahams eyebrow which takes a long time to grow back! Raymond also tries to pretend he is sick to skip something.
I rated this book two stars because I felt it was lame. The boys in it were sooo immature which is understandable because they are only in fourth grade but they were annoying! I would suggest this book to young kids and kids who have an immature sense of humor. I don't plan on reading the next book in the series because I didn't like this one.
December 30, 2008
This is a great book to read with or suggest to fifth and sixth grade boys. It tells of two boys starting their fourth grade school year and ruling the school. I have read their self published version of this book, too. And in the first version the boys are in sixth grade not fourth grade and this makes more sense to the boys I read this with who were in fact 6th grade students. Their expectations of being cool and what really happens if fun for the kids to read. These authors live in the same city I grew up in and in a suburb I am very familiar with. This Viking book version is broken into easier shorter chapters with a few chapters left out from original version in paperback. There is more white space and it is easier vocabulary for kids. It is easy to read and fun for boys and girls, too.
August 13, 2008
Raymond and Graham are starting the fourth grade and are excited to be the big kids on campus but things don't work out like they plan. They get the scary teacher Mrs. Gibson, Raymond gets a super small part in the school play. And Graham loses an eyebrow. On top of it all, all the kindergartners and first graders don't seem to be looking up to them. What's happening?! Great read for 4th grade boys, also for those kids looking for a Diary of a Kid read-a-like.
May 5, 2010
My boys just love the books about Raymond and Graham. This story centers around the boys entering the sixth grade. They are greatly anticipating being able to "rule the school" and their antics will have you in stitches. I frequently laugh out loud while reading these books to my boys and they giggle along with me. I don't like the words stupid and moron and I have to skip over these or replace them with something else, but overall it's a fun story.
April 20, 2011
This book was really funny and i couldn't stop reading.I actually finished the book in one day.I really like this book because it just like all the other Raymond and Graham books.They think that fourth frade will be the best year ever but it turns out to be a disaster.Alot of things that i wasn't expecting to happen actually happend in this book like when Raymond kissed Lizzy.That was really funy.I wish Mike Knudson would make more books in this series.
May 10, 2013
I read this book because the other 3rd grade teachers at my school like to use it as a read-aloud at the beginning of the school year. I thought that it was cute and really funny, but some things I would not want to read aloud. For instance... There is one scene where he eats way too many prunes, and has a few... issues. Really funny to me, but the kids would be uncontrollable and I would feel awkward reading that aloud, haha.
February 9, 2009
I think that the authors are a little ahead of themselves on two points: 4th graders usually aren't the eldest in elementary school (5th graders usually are); and it seems the boys' interests in kissing girls is something akin to a 5th or 6th grader. Apart from that, it is an entertaining book about the school-day adventures of two best friends.
November 11, 2009
I read this book because I know the author. I went to high school with both of them. But I really enjoyed the story. It is about 2 boys entering 4th grade and planning to be the coolest 4th grade boys ever. I actually laughed out loud several times at the stories and how Mike writes about them. I would recommend this to any 4th grader!
February 21, 2011
Clean, funny, L'dOL; these aren't 4th graders or 4th grade situations, 6th is closer to the mark(as the author admitted when he visited the school I teach in, said the publisher made him change to 4th)--another example of marketers compressing youth instead of letting children be children. The book is still hilarious though for its target audience.
April 27, 2012
I loved this book. Can I say that again? Raymond and Graham Rule the School was so fun to read with my son. We struggle finding books we both like to read. This book helped him advance his reading levels and gain fluency while laughing the whole time. I hope my son has a best friend like Graham to grow up with.
July 27, 2013
Raymond and Graham are now in fourth grade and now they think in fourth grade that they get to rule the school.After sometime they figure out that it is not always true because Raymond thinks he has got the worst teacher and a horrible part in a play. After sometime he realizes that the year is actually not that bad.
October 29, 2010
I have been reading this and i was going to jump out of my chair when i so the last few chapter, THE KISS.it just caught my attention because they are the nerds the bottom of the food chane people and thy get a kiss .wow.i
just can't what to read the next seres .
just can't what to read the next seres .
October 22, 2010
i really like this book its so fun
i like when raymond gets peter in thier play and tells his friend his part in the trampoline!
and they start laughing and the ask him how he is REALLY going to say his part so he leaves and tell his mom.
i like when raymond gets peter in thier play and tells his friend his part in the trampoline!
and they start laughing and the ask him how he is REALLY going to say his part so he leaves and tell his mom.
February 26, 2011
Hilarious! Great for reading aloud. I have 2 boys - 8 and 10 - and they are at a difficult age for books. Most are either too babyish or too complicated. These are just right - about 2 friends doing typical boy things and the silly situations that result. I laughed as hard as my boys did!
January 21, 2012
Mike Knudson and Steve Wilkinson's RAYMOND AND GRAHAM RULE THE SCHOOL tells of best friends who have been waiting the 4th grade for a long time - until they find they're stuck with an old, creepy teacher and an embarrassing class play. Will their coveted year turn out to be the worst ever?
August 18, 2008
This book was alright. I'm in 6th grade, so it was kinda funny to me because these guys don't act like me or any other 6th grader I know.
September 11, 2008
Fun book. First middle grade book that has really made me laugh. Maybe it was that I was reading it with my fourth grader. We both found ourselves laughing it up. Great illustrator.
January 13, 2009
Funny and absorbing...
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October 27, 2009I went to highschool with the authors of this book I'm curious to read them. The picture on the front cover looks like it could be a characature of themselves.
November 29, 2009
Cute. Good for boys with lots of gross stuff.
January 16, 2010
this book is great and full of humor and laughfter.i would recomend this to anyone
March 20, 2010
Laughed out loud reading this. The kids are going to love it!
October 22, 2010
this is a book about 2 4th graders and they want to be cool in school and its so funny the things they thing and do lol.
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November 8, 2010he shaved his eye brow! what funny thing will happen next!
November 6, 2010
i liked it a lot but at the end does Kelly like Grahm? and does Hidie like Raymond? i never found out since i finsh it
January 28, 2011
Pretty funny and good in my opinion it was a good piece of literature!
November 8, 2011
AUSOME!!!
April 5, 2012
It was horrible!!!!!!
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