This is a laugh-out-loud funny story about a boy named Rafe who is just beginning middle school and whose only friend is an artistic kid nicknamed “Leo the Silent.” In the beginning of the story, Rafe and all the students are forced to sit through the annual presentation about school rules, where the vice principal goes through every single page of the student handbook. It takes forever and is pure torture.
According to Rafe: “People always talk about how great it is to get older. All I saw were more rules and more adults telling me what I could and couldn’t do, in the name of what’s ‘good for me.’ Yeah, well asparagus is good for me, but it still makes me want to throw up.”
Rafe thinks most of the rules are ridiculous, and when he looks over at his friend Leo he sees he has sketched a smiling boy wearing a hat, blowing bubbles, listening to an ipod while texting, carrying a weapon, and wearing his pants halfway down his boxer shorts. The caption: “Rules are Made for Breaking.” Rafe decides he wants to BE that kid, the one that is having fun breaking all the rules.
Leo tells him he’s never going to be a jock or on Student Council or popular–but this kid (pointing to the sketch) “this is something you can do.” So Rafe gets a “brilliant” idea: he will attempt to break every single rule in the handbook.
Rafe takes immediate action and sneaks out of the assembly and pulls the fire alarm (a serious offense according to Section 11, Rule 3 of the handbook). That’s one way to end the boredom!
To make his task of breaking every rule even more challenging, he assigns point values to each offense depending on how hard it was to break. There would also be bonuses for things like getting big laughs or if the beautiful Jeanne Galletta sees him do it. He even names what he’s doing Operation RAFE (Rules Aren’t For Everyone).
Almost every other page is accompanied by a sketch, all of which are hysterical and help tell this funny story. Liked the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series? Give this book and the rest of the Middle School series a try!
According to Rafe: “People always talk about how great it is to get older. All I saw were more rules and more adults telling me what I could and couldn’t do, in the name of what’s ‘good for me.’ Yeah, well asparagus is good for me, but it still makes me want to throw up.”Rafe thinks most of the rules are ridiculous, and when he looks over at his friend Leo he sees he has sketched a smiling boy wearing a hat, blowing bubbles, listening to an ipod while texting, carrying a weapon, and wearing his pants halfway down his boxer shorts. The caption: “Rules are Made for Breaking.” Rafe decides he wants to BE that kid, the one that is having fun breaking all the rules.
Leo tells him he’s never going to be a jock or on Student Council or popular–but this kid (pointing to the sketch) “this is something you can do.” So Rafe gets a “brilliant” idea: he will attempt to break every single rule in the handbook.
Rafe takes immediate action and sneaks out of the assembly and pulls the fire alarm (a serious offense according to Section 11, Rule 3 of the handbook). That’s one way to end the boredom!
To make his task of breaking every rule even more challenging, he assigns point values to each offense depending on how hard it was to break. There would also be bonuses for things like getting big laughs or if the beautiful Jeanne Galletta sees him do it. He even names what he’s doing Operation RAFE (Rules Aren’t For Everyone).
Almost every other page is accompanied by a sketch, all of which are hysterical and help tell this funny story. Liked the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series? Give this book and the rest of the Middle School series a try!
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