Cartboy and the Time Capsule
L.A. Campbell
Cartboy and the Time Capsule
L.A. Campbell
Hello or Zip Dop Smirg everyone (just in case you are reading this document from the future and everyone speaks Martian now).
Hal hates history class - it literally bores him to tears. But his father is a big history buff, and unless Hal gets a good grade this year, he’ll never get his own room. Sixth grade gets off to a horrible start when history teacher Mr Tupkin gives the class an assignment to write journals that will be buried in a time capsule at the end of the year. Things get even worse when his dad makes him take his neighbour’s old shopping cart to school, earning him the nickname ‘Cartboy’. What else could possibly go wrong? To find out read Hal’s time capsule journal, chronicling a year in the life of the hopelessly hapless Cartboy!
Review
Cartboy and the Time Capsule is a great book, funny and clever. Hal (cart boy) just wants to be a normal kid. Instead he has a mum who makes him wear someone else’s old and stained clothes and eat food from the green market, and a dad who won’t even let him have his own room until he gets at least a B-grade in History. His dad is crazy about history.
The story switches between Hal’s journal and reality. It is filled with photos and Hal’s drawings. I particularly liked when Hal mistakes a speech performance for a cleaning job and totally stuffs up because he didn’t read the brochure properly.
This book is for people who like funny stories. It’s one of those books that you just dread what is going to happen until it does, and then it’s hilarious.
Reviewed by M. M. Cohen, aged 11
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