Even Private Stone is better than expected: There's a mystery buried in his past, and Oliver knows he can figure it out. As the partners film their documentary about Private Stone-with Oliver's friend Kevin signing on as their head writing consultant-Oliver discovers that sometimes the most interesting things are hiding in uninteresting places. And when Oliver finds out they have to research a random soldier named Private Raymond Stone who didn't even fight in any battles before dying of some boring disease, Oliver knows he's doomed.īut Ella turns out to be very different from what Oliver expected. So when the last assignment of seventh-grade history is a project on the Civil War, Oliver is over the moon-until he's partnered with Ella Berry, the slacker girl with the messy hair who does nothing but stare out the window. He knows everything about it: the battles, the generals, every movement of the Union and Confederate Armies. Twelve-year-old Oliver Prichard is obsessed with the Civil War. Praise for The Not-So-Boring Letters of Private Nobody A couple of tech savvy seventh-graders that readers will. He lives in Doylestown, PA, with his wife and four kids, some chickens, and a boxer that acts much like the forgotten eldest child. READ REVIEW 0 THE NOT-SO-BORING LETTERS OF PRIVATE NOBODY by Matthew Landis RELEASE DATE: MaFor seventh-grader Oliver, nothing’s fair when it comes to war, first love, or group projects. Matthew Landis slays boredom wherever it lurks in his eighth-grade social studies classroom. A trio of seventh graders become one another's first friends as they discover the secrets of a Civil War soldier in this middle grade novel for fans of Gordon Korman and Gary Schmidt Teacher Landis knows how middle schoolers work, and he shows his skill here.
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