For 10- to 14-year-olds who love to laugh, it’s “Jake the Fake Keeps It Real.” Yeah, you got this. Of course, there’s a subtle lesson here, too: Jake’s experiences teach your kids that being themselves is always correct, and that everybody has something they do best.įor middle school class clowns, the school slacker, or for artsy kids who feel misunderstood, this book is a winner. Even Jake’s teachers and friends will make your child LOL because of their totally natural but totally weird personalities.

Authors Craig Robinson and Adam Mansbach really know how to tickle a kid’s funny bone with a story of a school full of chaos that masquerades as creativity, and a boy who takes full advantage of it. About Jake the Fake Keeps His Cool For fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate comes the third book in this laugh-out-loud series about a class clown faking his way through middle school from comedian and film star Craig Robinson, 1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Mansbach, and NAACP History Maker recipient and cartoonist Keith Knight. Here’s another authentic thing: the humor that’s inside “Jake the Fake Keeps It Real.” The story is hilarious, the asides are side-splitting, and if that’s not enough, there’s the artwork by Keith Knight.Īny way you cut it, there isn’t a lot of seriousness here. The show that Jake is not prepared to do: five minutes on a stage, performing for a huge audience.Īnd that is something Jake could never fake … The show that every single student at MAA has to participate in. Luckily, he has good friends and laughs on his side, along with more than two hundred illustrations-all about him Product Details Price 16.99 15. The King of Cool is about to drop his chill. For fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate comes the third book in this laugh-out-loud series about a class clown faking his way through middle school from comedian and film star Craig Robinson, 1 New York Timesbestselling author. Unfortunately, there was one thing that was not on the list: the end-of-year talent show. Now Jake has to fake being happy about becoming the Middle Child.

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Jake the fake keeps his cool