Henry Winkler

The first day of fourth grade does not go well for Hank Zipzer, as his "living essay" on "what he did this summer" turns to disaster and Hank ends up in detention, but after all is said and done, detention was not the terrible experience he expected. Simultaneous.

Report card day is here, and fourth-grader Hank Zipzer is dreading his mother's reaction, so when Hank and his friends arrive at his mother's deli after school, it becomes a game of "keep away" to hide his terrible grades. Simultaneous.

Inspired by the true life experiences of Henry Winkler, whose undiagnosed dyslexia made him a classic childhood underachiever, the Hank Zipzer series is about the high-spirited and funny adventures of a boy with learning differences. It's science project time in Ms. Adolf's class. This is good news and bad news for Hank-he loves science, but he hates the report part. So Hank turns to TV to take his mind off things. But when the program directory scrolls by too quickly for Hank to know what's on, he decides to take apart the cable box to try to slow down the crawl. Great Now Hank has found the perfect science project But what he wasn't counting on was his sister's pet iguana laying eighteen eggs in the disassembled cable box. How is Hank going to get out of this one? Illustrated by Carol Heyer.