Middle-Grade Fiction
Date Published: 03-10-2021
Publisher: Morgan Publishing
"Help!! My head is being lowered into the swirling vortex of a toilet!”
My name is Teddy, and I’m in the 6th grade. It’s my first day at a different school, and so far, the only person I know is Zane, the school bully. I was just your everyday kid trying to stay off everyone’s radar, but when I met my new best friend, Bud Wiper, everything changed.
Bud is a 6th grade millionaire from 60 years ago.
Yep, that’s right, Bud Wiper is a treasure hunter from the 1940’s who left behind his journal full of life and adventure, and even though we’ve never met, I think he might be the only thing that gets me through the 6th grade alive.
The Lost Journals of Bud Wiper is a fantastic story of bravery and friendship, perfect for kids, middle school students, and adults.
Review: “This was my life now as a 6th grader—the lowest kid on the totem pole—fresh meat for 7th and 8th graders to torture.”
Fortunately, Teddy’s mom, feeling guilty about the new move, was gracious and generous enough to allow him to skip school the next day. That’s when he gets to visit the old mansion, where Teddy discovered a secret room and the lost journals of Bud Wiper.
The diary narrative of the lowly 6th grader was simple and easy enough to fall into; however, it can get a little long and rambling sometimes. The boy often distracts himself from his pathetic life by reading the journal entries of Bud Wiper. So, we basically go from one diary to another.
Teddy had some good quips in his day-to-day observations, and some of the entries were mildly amusing with some half-baked hijinks. But, of the most part, the day-to-day stuff wasn’t that exciting. With two journals reporting daily activities in two different lives, it was like we had two different stories here. We got one boy trying to survive middle school, and we had another boy running from the Nazis.
The stories (yes, I say “stories,” because we had two very different stories) were long and slow for the most part. There was no clear correlation between Teddy’s life and Bud’s journals.
Overall, this was a suitable read for middle schoolers, but I just felt that it needed more direction and excitement. Perhaps making this one story instead of two.
Rating:
3 stars
About the Author
S.M. Morgan is the author of The Lost Journals of Bud Wiper — A Middle Grade Adventure. He lives in East Texas with his wife, daughter, and son, and when not writing potty humor for kids, he is trying to get alone to read more mystery adventure stories.
When the real world calls him to be social, he can be found canoeing with his family or trying to convince his wife to watch action movies.
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