The handbook / Jim Benton.
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TextPublisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: 222 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780545942409 (hardback)Other title: Handbook : no more rulesSubject(s): Humorous fiction | Humorous stories | Dumpster diving -- Fiction | Parent and child -- Fiction | Family life -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | Parent and child -- Fiction | Humorous stories | JUVENILE FICTION -- Family -- Parents | JUVENILE FICTION -- Humorous Stories | JUVENILE FICTION -- Social Themes -- Friendship | Dumpster diving | Families | Humorous stories | Parent and child | Children's stories | Dumpster diving -- Juvenile fiction | Parent and child -- Juvenile fiction | Families -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Humorous fiction. | Humorous fiction | Humorous fiction. | Juvenile works. | Humorous fiction. | Fiction. | Humorous fiction. DDC classification: 813.6 LOC classification: PZ7.B447547 | Han 2017Summary: There's nothing Jake likes more than some good trash-picking, so when his elderly neighbors move out and leave an especially promising-looking pile of household refuse on the curb, he goes right for it. He only has the chance to grab one box before his mom catches him and orders him in for dinner, though. When mysterious goings-on begin to occur in the neighborhood, the trio investigates the hidden box from Jack's garage. In it, they find the Secret Parent's Handbook and with it all the means to subvert the irrational rules and petty tyranny of their home lives. No more clean rooms! No more vegetables! No more brushed hair or washed hands! It's all videogames and junk food all the time! But the authorities -- and the resistance -- have taken notice of the strange goings-on in Jack and his friends' neighborhood. And they are closing in...
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"No more rules"--Page [1] of cover.
There's nothing Jake likes more than some good trash-picking, so when his elderly neighbors move out and leave an especially promising-looking pile of household refuse on the curb, he goes right for it. He only has the chance to grab one box before his mom catches him and orders him in for dinner, though. When mysterious goings-on begin to occur in the neighborhood, the trio investigates the hidden box from Jack's garage. In it, they find the Secret Parent's Handbook and with it all the means to subvert the irrational rules and petty tyranny of their home lives. No more clean rooms! No more vegetables! No more brushed hair or washed hands! It's all videogames and junk food all the time! But the authorities -- and the resistance -- have taken notice of the strange goings-on in Jack and his friends' neighborhood. And they are closing in...
9-12 years old.
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