The last person sixth grade Becca wanted to hit with a volleyball was eighth grade Sloan “Selfie” St. Clair. Becca tries to make it up to Sloan, but hilarious trouble results with potentially embarrassing situations. Can the two unlikely friends prevent the disaster?

The Principal’s Underwear is Missing is a silly middle school caper. When sixth grade nobody Becca Birnbaum accidentally injures eight grade goddess Sloan “Selfie” St. Clair, she attempts to make amends by doing one small favor. When Becca means to take a confiscated shopping bag for Selfie, she mistakenly ends up taking the principal’s shopping bag with a DDD bra inside instead. Selfie loses the bra, and the odd couple race through the school to find the ‘bra-napper’ and deliver it back to the principal before she finds out. The comic-novel style is a good fit with Becca’s playful doodles adding more silliness to the story. This novel is a quick read but might interest fans of Dork Diaries and Big Nate. Recommended grades 4 and up.

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What happens when sixth-grade nobody Becca Birnbaum accidently injures the richest and most popular girl in her school? A rocking good time happens. This is probably the funniest book I have read in a long time. Becca is one of those uncoordinated, trying to find herself in the big world of middle school sixth graders. When she tries to get a volleyball over the net and inadvertently bounces it off the ceiling and into an eighth grader who ends up breaking her arm, you know you are in for an interesting time. Maybe I found it so humorous because I teach middle school. I understand sixth graders and how they are trying to fit in. In Becca's place she also happens to be one of the rule followers, a natural nerd. The eighth grade girl she injures is a very rich, very spoiled, very popular girl with drop dead looks that she knows how to use. Selfie earned her nickname because she likes to take selfies of herself. I kept wondering how things would turn out since you had complete opposites suddenly forced together. To try to make amends for injuring Selfie, Becca agrees to get something from the principal's office. Unfortunately the wrong bag is given to her and that begins the adventure. Selfie and Becca try to return the bag only to discover that the item in question is missing. To make matters worse someone wants to use that item in a prank. I learned what I see here at my school all the time. No matter what rung on the social ladder students are on, they all have the same insecurities and feelings. There are so many underlying lessons to be learned in this book. It is done with humor and in such a way that you can't help but love reading the book. This is an author I most definitely must put on my shelf. I will soon have a review of her book "The Loser List". I took great pleasure in telling my students they could not read the book until I finished it. Our day of reading was wonderful. I highly recommend any books by this author. ( )

This was an ARC from the publisher. (And I'm pretty sure my copy says "Bra" rather than "Underwear".) I thought it was charming and funny. I particularly appreciated that the pictures were an amplification of the text rather than just a straight-up illustration - they made me laugh out loud more often than the story itself did! Would definitely read more of Becca and Selfie's adventures. ( )