Say What?

By Margaret Peterson Haddix

Book Overview

Wait, what did you say?
Sukie is worried -- her parents are acting strange. When she runs in the house, her dad asks, "If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump off a bridge too?" When she eats peas with her fingers, Mom yells, "You'll put an eye out with that thing "
What is going on? She and her older brothers decide to investigate. And what they discover leads to a kids-against-parents war

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689862563
• ISBN13: 9780689862564
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 6 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 5

Customer Reviews

Are My Parents Robots?

Say What? By Margaret Peterson Haddix Sukie Rose Robinson ran through the house with tubs of glitter in both hands, when she ran into her father. She waited for him to scold her for running in the house, and spilling glitter. Instead, her father told her to stop picking her nose and asked, "If all of your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?" When Sukie ate peas with her hands, instead of saying "Don't eat with your fingers," Mom said, "You'll put an eye out with that thing!" Suki and her brothers called an emergency kid meeting to discuss their weird parents. They decided to test their parents. Reed put hand prints all over the walls, and his dad said, "Eat your vegetables." When Brian bounced the basketball in the family room, his dad said, "Use your words." When Brian spilled orange juice all over the kitchen floor, instead of saying, "Clean it up!" Mom said, "Shut the door. You think we can afford to air-condition the whole outdoors?" Have their parents been replaced by aliens? Are they really robots? The thought had Suki worried. She really wanted her parents back, she would even be glad to be scolded. I really enjoyed this cleaver book. It made me anxious to see what their parents were going to say, next. And would the kids run amok? Would the house ever be the same? I reccomend "Say What", it's fun for kids and parents. Jill Ammon Vanderwood, Author Through the Rug Through The Rug: Follow That Dog (Through the Rug) These are fun read-together books.

Love it

I love this book and so did my 5 yr old. It's a chapter book that starts off with the parents saying the wrong things every time they catch the children doing something wrong... like eat your peas when Suki was running in the living room while carrying glitter. They do this because they don't think the kids are listening to them. Then the kids figure out what the parents are up to and serve up their own wrong phrases until finally there is a truce.

a great book

I think this is a great easy book for young readers.I love it. xoooxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Sunshine State Readers Award

This review is for the Grades 3-5 Sunshine State Readers Award: After a lot of research I have found that there are only 4 books on the list that are appropriate for the younger 3rd grade reader. They are Say What?, Drita My Homegirl, Christopher Mouse and Wildfire. The rest of the list is simply to difficult for the younger readers. My daughter reads at a 3.7 level and even these books have higher vocabulary and more mature subject content then what she usually reads.

Another Great Book By MPH!!!

Great book! Very funny and cute. Story Line:Sukie, Reed, and Brian are confused. Their parents are saying weird things, normal parent-speaks, but at the wrong time! The kids find out that Mom and Dad got the idea from a magazine. It's supposed to turn children into sweet angels wanting their parents to tell them to do a chore. The kids aren't happy about it and decide that this means war! They do the same thing back, Sukie spills her milk and when Mom says 'No, you can't have a snack, dinner is in 5 minutes.' Sukie says 'Reed had more than me.' Hilarious! A short book, but funny, none the less.