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NateTheGreat
Since: Jan, 2001
11th May, 2022 06:58:45 PM
That's the first Fudge book, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. There are four books in the main series plus the spinoff Otherwise Known as Sheila The Great.
mudshark: I don't expect Nate to make sense, really.
There were at least two-three books in the series, with a spin-off book about a side character.
The first book (and the only one I really remember) was about the main character, the boy, getting a pet turtle, and how he then has to deal with his annoying younger brother. At the end of the story, the younger brother eats the turtle, however the boy is then given a pet dog as a replacement pet, who he then names “turtle”
The boy lives in a small apartment, and his dad worked for a juice company whose products taste really bad.