Strengths: Middle grade readers love jokes, and they love pictures in books, so this will be very popular. He is the creator of unforgettable characters and series, including Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Jane Effing Smith, and Maximum Ride, and of breathtaking true stories about the Kennedys, John Lennon, and Princess Diana, as well as our military heroes, police officers, and ER nurses. His friends are upset he isn’t around as much anymore and his family worry the fame is going to his head. What I Really Think: This isn't like giving cotton candy to kids for breakfast; it's sort of like Froot Loops or Lucky Charms.

The creator of the Max Einstein and Middle School series, he founded JIMMY Patterson to publish books that young readers will love.The affecting ending, which reveals a more vulnerable Jamie behind the guise of his humor, celebrates Jamie's resilient spirit. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). This book is good read if you read the series and to be honest you couldn't live without seeing this book if you read the other two. He does not want his new friends to learn the real reason he is in a wheelchair - as the only survivor of a tragic car crash that killed his parents. Suzie Orolvsky (whom Jamie refers to as " Cool Girl") is a popular girl who Jamie has a crush on for a time.

After scoring big on national TV in the semifinals contest, everyone back home is jumping on the Jamie Grimm bandwagon, and all the attention might be going to his head. But Jamie isn't alone, he has got Uncle Frankie, the Smilies, and his friends: Gaynor, Pierce, and Gilda. He enters a local comedy contest, wins it, and eventually goes on to win the New York state kid comic contest. I Totally Funniest: A Middle School Story by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein is the last book in the I funny series.Also, the ending seemed way to good to be true and, frankly, after what he did to his friends (Who by the way supported him all through the trilogy) I didn't really think he deserved that kind of ending. After the car accident that killed Jamie's parents and sister and left him in a wheelchair, Jamie spent time in a rehab center.