Later, Laura has an unfortunate turning point where she decides she had it coming because she got too cocky and self-important, and that she should give up on being president of any club, let alone her ultimate dream of being the first woman POTUS. The Pig City/Monkey Town war takes a surprisingly violent turn when two Monkey Town members assault Laura on the way home from school. Each member has to give Laura some horrifically embarrassing object (a pair of underwear, a bathtub baby picture, a teacher-crush confession, that sort of thing), which will be kept hidden in the club house unless that person spills the proverbial beans.īut there was one big thing that lowered my present-day rating by a half point. So, Laura and her co-founders agree that every club member will submit a form of personal “insurance” against blabbing. Of course, rebellion is only fun if you legitimately try not to get caught. Doyle by sneaking into the classroom every morning to write random pig-related messages on the chalkboard? Why just break a dumb school rule when you can be totally petty about it?Īnd why not tempt fate further by seeing how many classmates you can recruit into the forbidden club before someone blows the secret?

So why wouldn’t Laura bait her beloved Mr. To be somewhat fair, the punishment is just copying dictionary pages by hand after school, but it’s the principal of the thing. Doyle, has some kind of chip on his shoulder about punishing students for the most harmless infractions.

And if that’s not enough to guarantee rebellion, Laura’s infuriatingly hunky teacher, Mr.

Sixth Grade Secrets by Louis Sachar