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Boys Start the War, The
By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Book 1 of 12 in the
Boy/Girl Battle Series
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 4 - 7 | Grades 3 - 5 | S | 4.6 | n/a |
Just when the Hatford brothers were expecting three boys to move into the house across the river, where their best friends, the Bensons, used to live, the Malloys arrive instead. Wally and his brothers decide to make Caroline and her sisters so miserable that they'll want to go back to Ohio, but they haven't counted on the ingenuity of the girls.
From dead fish to dead bodies, floating cakes to floating heads, the pranks and tricks continue--first by the boys, then the girls--until someone is taken prisoner! Will the Malloys leave West Virginia? Will the Bensons come back? Trust the four Hatford boys and the three Malloy girls to do anything to get one up on each other in this fun-filled war of the wits.
Readers will cheer for their favorites in this lively story of two feuding families written by Newbery Medal winner Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.
Watch for the continuing chronicles of the Hatfords and the Malloys in The Girls Get Even.
From dead fish to dead bodies, floating cakes to floating heads, the pranks and tricks continue--first by the boys, then the girls--until someone is taken prisoner! Will the Malloys leave West Virginia? Will the Bensons come back? Trust the four Hatford boys and the three Malloy girls to do anything to get one up on each other in this fun-filled war of the wits.
Readers will cheer for their favorites in this lively story of two feuding families written by Newbery Medal winner Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.
Watch for the continuing chronicles of the Hatfords and the Malloys in The Girls Get Even.
Publisher: Thorndike Press
ISBN-13: 9780786246519
ISBN-10: 0786246510
Published on 10/2/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
Book Reviews (3)
The Hatford boys couldn't wait 'till their new neighbors across the street came-until those neighbors turned out to be girls. Then, all the Hartfords want to do is get the Malloys-their new neighbors-to move back to where they came from. Through a series of pranks, the Hatford boys and the Malloy girls start a war. But by the end of the book, neither of the families have won. Will these pranks ever end?
I loved this book so so so so much!!!!!!!!!!! It is a great realistic fiction story. It is about four boys whose best friends ( there neighbors ) move to Georgia and then three girls move in. I the story, both the boys and girls pull pranks on each-another. I think this book is meant for both boys and girls because in the story the author made it so it switched off between the boys perspective and the girls perspective. I think the message in this story is ''You can never have too much fun''. I hope you like it!!!!!!!