Author: Megan McDonald
Title: Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid
Illustrator: Peter H. Reynolds
Genre: Chapter Book
Subgenre: Realistic Fiction
Theme: Adventure
Primary Character: Stink
Secondary Characters: Judy
Award(s): none
Date of Publication: 2005
Publication Company: Candlewick Press
Summary: Stink is the shortest kid in class. Every morning get his sister Judy to measure him to see how much he's grown, until one night she measures him and he's shrunk a quarter of an inch! Stink tries to think of ways to make him taller. In his first solo adventure, along with his worries about shrinking, Stink takes home the class pet but accidentally flushes it down the garbage disposal and also discovers that Presidents’ Day means a lot more than time off from school.
Use with students: This book could be used to reel in students that are not very interested in reading. Also, this could be used cross-curriculum in a math lesson empathizing measurement.
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