I’ve read it several dozen times, and it never loses its magic. I haven’t made it any secret that this is one of my favorite books ever. This is a super inspiring book of a nerd creating an awesome website that saves the kids from the horrible terror that is Bubba. No, he even offers to be his sidekick! That’s how the Bouncer was born. Green realizes that Nolan is Shredderman, but he doesn’t rat him out. Things change, and Bubba even gets suspended! Mr. Nolan uses clever ways to spread the word about the site and before long the school is paying attention to. If Bubba sees the website and finds out who did it, he’ll pummel them for sure. Of course, Nolan can’t share his true identity.

He convinces his mom to let him use her credit card to pay for the hosting, and the site is live. He should start a website and expose what Bubba’s been doing! Granted, Nolan doesn’t know how to create a website, but a few late nights should fix that. And then Nolan suddenly gets hit with a great, once in a lifetime, idea. This should be easy for Nolan because his dad’s a reporter. Green asks the class to become reporters. He’s not very good at hands on stuff.įor this project, however, Mr. But when he assigns the class a term project, Nolan is not exactly enthusiastic.

Green drives a hippy van and plays guitar. Luckily, Nolan has a really cool teacher named Mr. Bubba is in Nolan’s class and constantly torments not only him, but the entire school. The worst bully at Nolan’s school is a kid named Bubba Bixby. He eats lunch by himself every day and is constantly bullied and called nicknames such as “Turd.” Nolan is a nerd, the smartest kid in fourth grade but also one of the least popular. The main character in Shredderman is a kid named Nolan Byrd. I don’t think I’ve ever been into any book that much before or since! Summary

A few minutes later I looked up and realized that everyone was already out the door. I didn’t hear the teacher, however, so engrossed was I in the book. I was reading it at the end of school and the teacher announced that it was time to pack up. I first discovered it in the school library and soon became encapsulated in it. It has inspired me in a lot of ways, and this website would probably not exist had I not read the book. Shredderman: Secret Identity by Wendelin Van Draanen is one of my absolute favorite kids books.

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