Big Nate: Nailed It! (Volume 28)
Big Nate: Nailed It! (Volume 28) book cover

Big Nate: Nailed It! (Volume 28)

Paperback – February 28, 2023

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Price
$10.38
Format
Paperback
Pages
176
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1524879235
Dimensions
6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
Weight
11.6 ounces

Description

About the Author Lincoln Peirce has been drawing the Big Nate comic strip for over 30 years. Born in Ames, Iowa, Peirce grew up in Durham, New Hampshire. As a kid, he began creating his own strips in the sixth grade. Peirce taught high school in New York City and has created several animated pilots for Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. He lives in Portland, Maine, with his family.

Features & Highlights

  • Sixth grader Nate Wright is on a roll in this new collection of comics featuring
  • Big Nate
  • , now an animated series on Paramount+ and Nickelodeon
  • !
  • You can’t win ‘em all—especially when you’re slumping sixth-grader Nate Wright. Stuck in a cycle of misfortune, our hero finds an unlikely good luck charm . . . and suddenly, he can do no wrong! He finds a $20 bill, scores a C+ on his social studies test (nailed it!), and even lands a movie date with the captain of the cheer squad. But the high times can’t last forever. Before long, Nate’s epic hot streak has gone ice cold, thanks to an all-time hair crisis, a great escape by the class gerbil, and a no-holds-barred chess match versus . . . a CAT!? Welcome to the riotous world of
  • Big Nate
  • , where chaos is the default setting and Nate’s learning the secret of survival: sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good!

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Love Big Nate but this one seems more for middle schoolers.

Big Nate graphic novels are very popular in my elementary school library. Nate and friends continue in their antics of playing pranks, drawing comics, going to detention, and trying to get out of school work. The art work is always colorful and consistently good. Big Nate is a perpetual 6th grater and the books are geared for ages 8-12. A couple of the storylines or jokes don’t fit for that young of readers. I don’t want to explain to a 3rd grader what erotica means. This would be more appropriate for a middle schooler than a younger elementary age reader.
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Not a Big Nate installment for my students

The Big Nate books have always been extremely popular with my 4th and 5th grade library patrons and while this particular title is very funny and well-illustrated, the relatable 6th grade characters and situations should not include the words “erotica,” “lust,” nor have references to making out and lips meeting sweet lips. Not when the target audience is grades 3-6. I’m very surprised at this change from what has always been a purely funny graphic novel with a likeable, albeit not popular, prankster kid with funny hair who plays baseball and is seems to be content with his niche in family and at school.
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Another good Nate book

Big Nate is a popular series in my house. My son reads it all the time and loves to share all the funny situations that Nate finds himself in, especially those involving Mrs. Godfrey.

In this book, Nate finds a lucky pencil and he finds his luck starts improving. He gets a better grade on a test, he makes friends with a popular crowd, and instead of a pop quiz, Mrs. Godfrey gives a "popcorn" party. There are several funny parts, but the funniest was probably Prank Day. This is a part that would interest kids like my son, The kids play pranks on teachers, such as six inches of tomato sauce on the floor of the teachers' lounge, helium pumped in the principal's office before he makes announcements, and a family of skunks locked in Mrs. Godfrey's minivan.

As always, the jokes and dialogue are funny and definitely aimed at the intended audience. I will be purchasing this for my son and I am glad that Peirce continues to keep this series going.

Thanks to NetGalley and Andrew McMeel Publishing for this ARC! All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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