Wading Through Peanut Butter — Pamela Curtis Swallow

What'll it be -- smooth or chunky?

Bently Barker thinks he's got fifth grade in his lunch bag. No sweat. No problem. He's vowed to show the world an all-new, super-cool Bently--someone who will make all the other kids at school go, "WOW!"

Soon enough, other kids are very impressed--for all the wrong reasons! Bently's got the world's toughest seventh grader on his tail, he's being blackmailed, and he has the unenviable task of feeding his teacher's pet octopus, Archie.

Can Bently trudge through the sludge and prevent fifth grade from being his stickiest year ever?