Adam McCauley

Sam Samurai (2004)

Scieszka is funny, as always, and I was a little worried about the learning value of this book when I started. The boys are assigned haiku homework, in the 5-7-5 format!They warp to 17th Century Japan just before Basho's birth, and have a grand adventure learning about renga and hokku. They ev...

Your Mother Was a Neanderthal (1995)

Student Name: Chris MaynardPurpose: Fantasy (Wide Reading Project)Genre: Fantasy Grade: Intermediate - Early Middle SchoolSubjects/Themes: See the bookshelves above. School Use: I would not teach this book at all as I did not like it. With that said, I borrowed it from the classroom library of a ...

The Not-So-Jolly Roger (1993)