Written and Illustrated by: Victoria Jamieson
Genre: Graphic Novel
Grades: 3-5
Awards: Bluebonnet Award
There is a hamster that goes by the name of George Washington. GW or George Washington is stuck in jail, a cage in the second-grade classroom. GW explains that he was captured with two of his other best friends, Barry and Biter, and they called themselves the 'Furry Fiends.' GW has been creating an invention for him to escape, called 'The Hairy Houdini Escape-O-Matic.' One night, GW was able to escape from his cage and went on a search for Barry and Biter. GW found Barry in a first grade classroom, but he seemed off to GW because he was enjoying reading a book in his cage. GW was able to unlock Barry's cage and they made their way to Biter's kindergarten classroom. They got to Biter's cage and she has changed completely different from the way she used to be. Biter was now called Sunflower and she now meditates and enjoys sharing her feelings, just like the kindergartners in her class. As the Furry Fiends were discussing their way to escape, a mouse named Harriet stopped them and declared that they cannot escape as there would be more restrictions for the pets in the school. Harriet had an army of mouses that captured GW, Barry, and Sunflower into a cage and built a barricade of legos around it. Harriet explained that they plan on making the children in school sick tomorrow by messing up their lunch. The three Furry Fiends were able to escape and made their way to the school's kitchen to find Harriet and his army messing with the food. The Furry Fiends were able to attack Harriet and his army, causing a food fight in the kitchen. GW explained to Harriet that he won because all the food that Harriet made to make the children sick, were all wasted and all over the kitchen. The Furry Fiends return to one of their classrooms and GW explained that after their adventurous night, he wouldn't mind staying in the school, as long he goes on more adventures with his best friends.
I really enjoyed reading this book and laughed a lot. This book would be perfect to have in a classroom library and would be good for third to fifth graders. An activity to include this book would be having the students sequence and draw what happened in the story. The students can also write and draw what they would do to stop Harriet from making the students of the school sick.
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