Nate Rocks is back as a fifth grader armed with paper, pen, and his ever powerful imagination. He is very excited to be a fifth grader for a lot of reasons. Being a fifth grader means that he no longer needs to hang with the younger kids in school, and it also means that he will be going to the fifth graders annual trip to New York, something he and his classmates are all very excited about. Not even his annoying classmate, Lisa Crane, could lessen his excitement about going on that trip. But there's one big problem. The fifth graders need to raise enough money for the trip. By a surprising twist of fate, Nate and his friend Tommy was picked to head the planning committee in raising the funds. It's just too bad they had to head it along with Lisa too. Nate's family supports him as he goes on an adventure to save the fifth grader's New York trip.

Any child reading "Nate Rocks the School" would be able to jump into another world and go through the same adventures as Nate does. It allows any child to explore their own imagination and dream. It's such a great way to encourage your child's imagination, creativity and sense of fun. This installment in the Nate Rocks series helps every mom teach their child the value of teamwork, responsibility, creativity, compassion, and courage. I highly recommend that you read Nate Rocks the School with your child. Not only would it be fun for your child, you'd also have a topic for cool conversations with them.

In Karen Pokras Toz's "Nate Rocks the School", we meet Nate who seems to be a typical teenager, but soon the reader finds out that he is indeed very different. While Nate likes to dream, his dreams take him along a variety of paths that call upon him to help save the day. He may help people escape a building, find a missing child or many other adventurous activities. While the school class is getting ready to go to New York, they need to raise funds in order to afford the trip as the schools funds have been severally cut. Nate and his friends work hard to come up with fund raising events, but always come up short until the night of the auction when someone truly makes a believer out of Nate that dreams can come true. Nate's mother isn't the best of cooks and he certainly appreciates the abilities and creativity of his friend’s mothers as they invite him to share a meal with them. He tries to avoid getting paired up with a girl that his mom thinks he would be great with, yet he finds himself constantly around her.

In Karen Pokras Toz's "Nate Rocks the School", Nate is looked upon as a superhero, performing heroic acts throughout the story. This would be a great book to have in schools and for children to share at home with their parents. The constant adventure keeps it from ever bogging down. If someone is looking for a book for their child, this is truly an adventurous, exciting, interesting and fun story to read.