101 Ways to Bug Your Teacher is a 2004

2004 in literature

The year 2004 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing to be read across the nation....

 children's book by Lee Wardlaw

Lee Wardlaw

Lee Wardlaw is the author of several children's books, such as 101 Ways to Bug Your Teacher , 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents, and See You In September.- Early life :Lee was born in Salina, Kansas on November 20, 1955...

. It is the sequel to 101 Ways To Bug Your Parents. The book focuses on Stephen Wyatt, a middle school inventor who must overcome his inventor's block that developed when his parents reveal they are planning to have him skip eighth grade, leaving his friends behind in middle school when he goes off to high school.

The novel was named to the Best Books of the Month list in ALAN, the journal of the National Council of Teachers of English.

Main Characters

• Stephen "Sneeze" Wyatt: Sneeze, nicknamed for his horrible allergies, is a kid inventor trying to get recognition by using his brilliant inventions. In 101 Ways to Bug Your Teacher, he loses his ability to invent and tries his hardest to discover why.

• Hector "Hiccup" Denardo: Sneeze's best friend (and sometimes not-so-willing test subject), Hiccup Denardo, is a hypochondriac who comes from a large family. He is constantly worried about getting sick, usually going to extremes to prevent becoming ill. He earned his nickname from the fact that he gets the hiccups whenever he is nervous or excited.

• Hayley Barker: Sneeze's other best friend. She runs the counter at the golf course where Sneeze works. She's usually very calm and collected, but on the inside she's grieving over the loss of her mother, Alyssa. Hints are dropped throughout the book that she has a crush on Sneeze.

Summary

The story opens with Sneeze, Hiccup, Goldie, Ace, and Peirre working on their Egyptian history projects. Their teacher, Ms. Pierce, has an unusual way of assigning punishments to her students. It's called the death roll. The offending student must roll a die and match its number to the one on the death roll chart. The punishment related to that number is then handed out to the unfortunate student. His parents tell him that he is going to skip the 8th grade and go straight to high school. Sneeze doesn't want to leave his friends so he makes a list of things to do to bug teachers. When Hayley confronts him, he kisses her smack on the lips. Sneeze enters the Inventors Club, and his mom has a baby named Alyssa Marie Wyatt, who inherits his allergies.