The Boys Start the War

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and Phillis Reynolds Naylor

Book Overview

A Newbery Award-winning AuthorChildren's Book Awards: Maryland, West Virginia, and South CarolinaJust when the Hatford brothers were expecting three boys to move into the house across the river where... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385308140
• ISBN13: 9780385308144
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 133 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

The Boys Start the War

The Boys Start the War by Phyllis Reynolds is a great story. It tells how four boys and three girls play tricks on each other. Everyday Jake, Josh, Wally, Peter, Caroline, Eddie, and Beth seem to play tricks like when the boys put dead animals in the lake the girls swim in. The girls always find a way to get back at the boys like when they throw a cake the boys’ mom made in the lake. There’s a lot of excitement in this book.

A Whole Book of Wacky Fun!

This book is about a group of brothers and a group of sisters. When the girls move into the boys' neighborhood, the boys want them to move away. The boys play a nasty trick on the girls. As revenge, the girls play a trick on the boys, and so on. I recommend this book to anyone who likes humor, and wants to read about the weirdest feud ever!

Naylor best book ever!!

Just when the Hatfords were expecting three boys to move into the house the river,where their best friends used to live , the Malloy girls arrive instead . Wally and his brothers decided to make them so misrable that they will want to move back to Ohio , but they havent counted on what the girls had on mind!From dead fish to dead bodies, floating cakes to floating heads, the pranks and tricks continue - First with the boys, then the girls - until someone is taken prisoner!

FANTASTIC READING! ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS!

What wonderful stories! I read the first one to my third graders and they loved it! They couldn't wait for me to read aloud each day. When I found out there were two more: The Girl's Get Even and Boys Against Girls, my class was thrilled and begged me to read them as well. Now I found out there is a fourth! (The Girl's Revenge.) I can't wait to take that one in to read to my class! These will definitely be ones I read to my third graders every year.

If you like adventure this is the book for you!

Have you ever met some boys that you really hate? The three Malloy sisters Eddie, Caroline and Beth have. They just moved from Ohio to Buckman, West Virginia. They just so happened to move into the house where the Hatford brothers, Wally, Peter, Jake and Josh's, best friends the Bensons used to live. The Bensons told the Hatfords that if they were having trouble renting out their old house in Buckman they will come back. The Hatfords think if they can make the Malloy girls miserable enough they will go back to Ohio, and the Bensons will come back to Buckman.So now the boys have started a sort of mini war between themselves and the girls. Until their little practical jokes go too far and Caroline is taken prisoner in their shed. This was a great book. If you like excitement this is the book for you!