Book Summary: The Bad Report Card

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The Bad Report Card!
Author:NATALIE BAILON Illustrator:NATALIE BAILON
It was a Friday morning when Max's teacher Mrs. Janette told the 6th-grade class that they were getting their report cards sent home at the end of the day. Max already knew that he had bad grades, but his parents didn’t. All Max could think of was his report card and how his parents were going to act when they see his report card. Max kept on getting distracted. His teacher kept on yelling his name and kept on saying,”Max please pay attention.”Max gets off of school at 3:00 and it was 1:30 and Max kept on getting more distracted and more worried.
It was 3:20 when max saw the clock and his face was getting as red as a tomato. Then...THE...TIME...CAME! Max was …show more content…

Mrs. Janette was calling the students in alphabetical order. Max was going to be in the middle because his name started with an M. Finally, she got to the middle of the alphabet and she was close to M. Then she called Max and Max went up to get his report card. Mrs. Janette told them to not open them in school. She told them to open them once they got home. Max rode the bus home so he decided to open his report card when he got on the bus just like other kids do.Everybody was lined up when they got their report cards. All of the students were talking about their report card. Max thought he was the most nervous kid in the classroom(he probably was). Once they were going outside to the buses Max remembered that there was an 8th grader who knew how to hack into stuff and how to change. So Max went outside, rode the bus back home but instead of going home, he went to the 8th grader's house because they are best friends and they know where they both live. Max went to his house and told him about his report card. His parents already knew that the reports were going home on Friday so they were excited to see his report card. Max wanted Blake the 8th grader to change hid C’s, D’s, and F’s to straight A’s. “I will try to do that for you, but you will have to owe me back,” said Blake. Max agreed with that and decided to give him $10. Max gave Blake his report card. Max was going to go back home because his parents would’ve been worried if he …show more content…

They stared at that report card for 5 minutes. His parents told him “good job” and “we knew you could do it. Max went back to Tyler’s room and told him that they felt for it. It was already dark, so Max went back to his room and went to sleep. Max’s backpack accidently fell while he was asleep. Alexis and Bob went to Max’s room to check if he was still awake but he wasn’t. Alexis and Bob spotted the REAL report card on the floor and they saw the fake one in his bed. Alexis grabbed the fake one and Bob grabbed the real one. They went to their room to check the report cards. Alexis made sure that the fake one was from this year and not last year and it was. The real one had the same teacher and the fake one also had the same teacher. The next day Alexis called Mrs. Janette to make a parent teacher conference. Mrs. Janette said that she available today at 12:00 so Alexis scheduled it for 12:00. Max woke up and Alexis told him that she had a parent-teacher conference with Mrs. Janette. Max got so scared he told his mom “Why do you need to go if my report card had straight A’s?!” but Alexis didn’t tell him anything. Once it was 12:00 Alexis and Max went to Max’s school. Alexis asked Mrs. Janette if the fake report card was the real one. Mrs. Janette said it was not the real report card. Max just sat there quietly with his face really red. When Max and Alexis were driving back home their car was really quiet.Once they got

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