Your Question For Author Here By Kate Dicamillo

In the novel “Your Question for Author Here” by Kate DiCamillo and Jon Scieszka the type of conflict in this story is man vs man. The main conflict of this story is Joe Jones needs to get about a C- on his author project to not be grounded. He is having trouble getting the information because of his negative attitude.
In the beginning of the story Joe Jones seems like he just wants to get this project over with and not put any effort into his writing. In the beginning of the story Joe says,” Aw come on. It’s bad enough I have to do this lame assignment ” (106). This shows how Joe really does not care about the assignment and has a very negative attitude toward it.
As the story moves along Joe Jones starts to show interest toward the author,

Maureen. Joe says,” I went and looked at the spider one in the library, the first part of Fangs For The Duchess is pretty good ” (109). This shows how he has changed because he started reading the authors books that he hated at the beginning of the story.
In the end of the story Joe Jones really showed how much he cared and learned through the author project. He says,” I think you turned out to be a pretty good author to pick even if I did it to bug Jennifer” (123). I can now see the Joe learned a lot from Maureen such as writing a Haiku.
In conclusion, one message I saw in the story was with the meaning of friendship you need to believe and have faith in each other, just like Maureen saw faith in Joe.