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The Top 10 Ways To Ruin The First Day Of School By Kenneth Derby

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Honestly, I have never read an English book before until I found a catchy one. It is the most interesting book that I have ever found in Ku, library. I borrowed it for the first time that I saw a strange title and read 1 page. The book is The Top 10 Ways to Ruin the First Day of School, written by Kenneth Derby. After I read it just 1 chapter, I could not put it down because it was very funny and amazing. In my opinion, the writer is very creative and excellent because he illustrated this unique story like I stand with main characters and see everything happens in this book. There are many great vocabularies, consisting both easy and difficult words which I could clue them from contexts. Moreover, I like the 10 lists in the last page of each chapter. 10 lists are about how to do strange things of Anthony Madison who always send them to the Late Show with David Letterman, his favorite the late night television program, to get on the show some day. However, some parts of this book are quite nonsense, for example Anthony …show more content…

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