It's the First Day of School…Forever! by RL Stine – review

02.08.11 - kids hair brush

Out syrup from your hair? Artie wanted to make a good impression his first day of school, and instead ends up going to school looking like a total loser! Not only that, Artie’s dog, Wowser, jumps up on him and shreds the sleeve of his black T-shirt with his nails. He has to run back upstair and quickly choose a different T-shirt, and tries to use a hairbrush to brush the syrup from his hair, but “the hairbrush stuck to my head.”

Artie grabs a Cubs baseball cap before he leaves, to try to hide his matted, syrupy hair. Then, to add insult to injury, he has to walk his brother, Eddie, to his Cyrus Elementary school, and on the way, Artie’s brother jumps in every puddle and splashes water on him. Also, a truck roars by them, splashing yet more water on Artie. That would be enough to ruin almost anyone’s first day of school, but the worst is still yet to come!

Artie’s new principal meets him at the door and tells him that he can’t wear his cap inside. When Artie removes it, some of his hair also gets yanked out of his head, leaving a bald spot. Also, Artie’s dog, Wowser, follows him to school and jumps up on the principal, getting muddy paw prints on his suit and ripping off his jacket pocket. Other terrible things that happen to Artie include his accidently stomping on the star football player, Brick’s, foot, throwing a baseball to a spiky-haired kid that instead hits Brick’s head and knocks him out, not being able to find his class, and winding up in the wrong class and taking Brick’s seat. When Brick confronts him about being in his seat, and Artie gets up to find his class which is across the hall, he accidently takes Brick’s backpack instead of his own.

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