Perry Nodelman

Behaving Bradley Perry Nodelman

Jacket Description/Back: Brad Gold just can't seem to catch a break at Roblin Memorial High! First he's recruited by his best friend, Coll, to get student input on a set of new school rules, a.k.a. the Code of Conduct. Then, after Brad reluctantly agrees to help him, Coll totally abandons the cause. Not only is Brad left with all the work, but with all the grief as well! The faculty doesn't exactly appreciate his "student input", and the students aren't much better -- it seems like everybody wants to use the Code to change everybody else. Of course none of this beats the anonymous threatening phone calls, or Brad's being terrorized by the school bullies, Mandy and Candy!Brad has taken on a noble mission, but how far does he have to go to in his call for mutual respect? More important, will Brad survive this call?Review Quotes: "This first person account of life in a 1990s high school is dead-on accurate". -- VOYAExcerpts: "Before I'm done, that Code is going to have stuff in it about what teachers do and say, too. It's going to make sure that everyone has to behave just as well as everyone else. I'm getting everybody to respect everybody if I have to kill them all to do it". Publisher Marketing: Making rules. As if that's something Bradley Gold wants to get involved in. If it weren't for his buddy, Coll, who roped him into adding his "student input" to Roblin High's new code of conduct, there's no way Brad would have been within ten miles of the parents' committee meeting that turns him into an unwilling activist. With high humor and exquisite farce, Perry Nodelman reveals a side-splitting view of high school law and order. Review Citations:

School Library Journal 06/01/1998 pg. 151 (EAN 9780689814662, Hardcover)

Booklist 06/15/1998 pg. 1749 (EAN 9780689814662, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 07/20/1998 pg. 222 (EAN 9780689814662, Hardcover)

New York Times 07/19/1998 pg. 25 (EAN 9780689814662, Hardcover)

Kirkus Review - Children 06/01/1998 pg. 815 (EAN 9780689814662, Hardcover)

Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/1998 pg. 82 (EAN 9780689814662, Hardcover)

Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1999 pg. 82 (EAN 9780689814662, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Nodelman, Perry Nodelman is former president of the Children's Literature Association.