Big Nate Goes for Broke

Big Nate Novels #4

by Lincoln Peirce

Mighty Jefferson Middle School always wins. Then Nate decides it's time to go from zeroes to heroes! Will Nate crack under the pressure of of the "Ultimate Snowdown"? Or lead P.S. 38 to its biggest victory yet?

For fans of the hilarious Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: Meet BIG NATE, notorious class clown and definitely NOT the teacher's pet.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Fiction, Humor, Middle Grade, Comics, Childrens, Realistic Fiction

224 pages, Hardcover

First published March 29, 2012

About the author

Lincoln Peirce is a cartoon artist from Portland, Maine. He lives with his wife and two children, and occasionally gives lectures to students about cartoon creating. Peirce writes the comic strip "Big Nate". Peirce's comic strip, Big Nate, is featured as an island on the famous children's website, Poptropica. Big Nate appears as the first cartoon on The Maine Sunday Telegram in the comics section.

He studied art at Colby College in Maine were he began cartooning. He also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture before teaching art and coaching basketball at a New York highschool for 3 years. He currently plays hockey with "an old men's league" and describes it as his best sport as a child. In an interview with the Washington Post, Peirce stated that his last name is pronounced "purse" and is not a misspelling of "pierce."

Lincoln Peirce was a member of the "Surviving as a Print Cartoonist" Panel at the Maine Comics Art Festival with fellow cartoonists Corey Pandolph (Barkeater Lake, Toby: Robot Satan, The Elderberries), Norm Feuri (Retail, Gill) and with Mike Lynch moderating. On the panel Lincoln revealed he is currently working with some animation and licensing projects including the addition of a Big Nate island to the online game Poptropica.

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of my students is a huge fan of Big Nate, and when he bought it at our recent book fair, and read it in one day, I knew I had to read it as well. What a fun, fun book! And I loved the emphasis put on both creativity and teamwork in this book in the Big Nate series. A great addition to our library!

[Sahal Sajeer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nate Wright is about to have the biggest blast when he hears that his school, P.S. 38, is going to close down for a short notice. This means that he gets to mingle with friends, relax and enjoy drawing comics galore! But, all that changes when P.S. 38 announces that studies will continue in Jefferson, the mortal enemy of P.S. 38. The thing is, P.S. 38 hasn't beaten Jefferson in ANYTHING, so Nate and his gang are ready for a thrashing. But all that changes when the find Jefferson's 'Achilles' Heel' and use it against them in the upcoming snow sculpture contest. Will P.S. 38 finally beat Jefferson, or will they still remain the total underdog. Find out in Big Nate Goes for Broke by Lincoln Peirce, a story about comedy, courage and rising up.

[Alex_E1 · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the second Big Nate book I've read and I just love these books so much. This book mainly talked about Nate's school's students competing against the Jefferson's school. The Jefferson school is the life long winner and Nate's school is a total loser. I liked this book because it tells us a moral: there are never total winners, everyone have a weakness. This tells us this life lesson, that could help us manage our feelings when we get frustrated, when we lose or when we met their kind of situation.

[CarsonB · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was awesome. It has so much humor in this book. It includes a kid named Nate, who's just like me, in middles school, and gets into some trouble. Nates school has a gas leak, so they have to go to their rival school, and stay there for the rest of the trimester. So, will Nate be able to keep it together for the remainder of the trimester? Also, my favorite part is when they do a snowman building competition and they find that Jefferson Middle School cheated, and they finally defeated the Jefferson Eagles.

[Tyler]

its a book.

[Kevin Findley · Rating 4 out of 5]

In this fourth entry, Nate breaks his arm just after the kids of P.S. 38 are forced to attend Jefferson Middle School; their arch-rival, after water damage to their school. He breaks it while trying to help another student, Chad, who is dealing with the premiere bully of Jefferson.

Introduced in this book is Dee-Dee, artist and drama student. She quickly becomes a friend to Nate and his group and proves valuable to their efforts to bring down Jefferson's winning streak when it comes to the school rivalry.

By the end, Nate and P.S. 38 come out on top because Nate figures out that while they can't beat Jefferson, they can let their rivals beat themselves. It's a fun lesson and a decent little bit of history and mythology about the Trojan War and Achilles.

Highly recommended for Fans of Nate and his crew and other YA illustrated literature.

Find it! Buy it! READ IT!

[Jerry (Rebel With a Massive Media Library) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute and funny. This series is definitely a winner.

[Samuel L C2 · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is very addicting, it's very hard to get off. It's a good book to enjoy and it also has some comic parts to it. Nate does everything odd in the book. Nate's archenemy (Gina) is trying to edit the yearbook but he thought she would make everything about herself some he told his friend (Francis) to be the Co-editor and do stuff to stop her from taking over, this book can be found in Sora. Superpro book, must-read ;).

[Abi · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was amazing

[Tristan Slaton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Big Nate Goes for Broke by Lincoln Pierce is a story about big Nate and his friends had a snow day and is trying to have the best snow day ever but turns on them. at the school dance the sprinkler system went of and they went home. The next morning Nate, Teddy, and Francis where sledding on Teddy’s new tube when the despised rivals Jefferson came and popped Teddy’s new tube. so the decided to go to nates house. On there way back they saw construction workers at their school. They said “what's going on here”. The man turned around the water sprinklers system ruined everything and got everything wet and moldy so we have to close PS 38 for a while. the boys screamed with joy and rushed to Nates house. they were planning on meeting the Jefferson at the bus stop and say have fun at school and play all day and have the best week ever. Nate yelled at his dad “DAD DAD GUESS WHAT SCHOOLS CLOSED FOR A WHOLE WEEK”. His dad says I know you're principle sent and email and Jefferson. Nate stopped his dad ugh I don't want to talk about Jefferson. His dad say OK you but you may want to read the email. so Francis starts reading. yes school is closed for a while but we will not miss work. Nate says miss any work what teddy scrolled down they all read NO WE HAVE TO GO TO JEFFERSON SCHOOL FOR A WEEK AH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Julian Joseph · Rating 5 out of 5]

The title of the book I finished reading was Big Nate: Goes For Broke.
The author of this book is Lincoln Peirce. It is a fictional book and has 216 pages.

The Main Characters are Nate, Dee Dee, Francis, Teddy and the Jefferson Middle School students.

The book is about a boy named Nate, who complains that the Jefferson students always win everything, which is proved by the fact that Jefferson won at everything against Nate's school, P.S. 38 for the last few years. Dee Dee says no one truly wins everything, and that everybody has a weakness. It is easier said than done, as Nate's friends try to look for Jefferson Middle School's weakness. Will they find it?

To find out more, read the book.

I would recommend this book for people who like cartoon books like the Diary of a Wimpy Kid, for example.
Thank you for reading!

[Layla · Rating 5 out of 5]

great book and hilarious!

[Alex F_E2 · Rating 4 out of 5]

After reading this book, Sometimes in life, I feel like that I need to go crazy sometimes because of too much stress.

[Rylan Black · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book if you like books that er like Diary of a Wimpy Kid this is a good book that's like that and I totally suggest it.

[Charley Bayer]

I read the book Big Nate, Goes for Broke. It’s a funny fictional book, it is like a comic novel.
The main setting of the book is at PS.38 Elementary, and at Jefferson High School. Some of the main characters are Nate, Teddy, Chad Francis, Dee Dee, and Mrs. Godfrey. Most of the conflict is between the schools, PS.38 vs. Jefferson. The kids from PS.38 vow to beat Jefferson at anything they can.
I thought the book was good, and also very funny. But the book didn’t have a purpose, but it was funny. There was no information, power, or persuasive factors in the book, but it encourages to never give up.
Overall it was a good, entertaining, and funny book. I would recommend this book to just about all kids under 7th grade, unless you haven't been reading enough recently, and need to finish a book in a short amount of time for some reason.

[Matthew Schulze · Rating 4 out of 5]

I remembered this being the best Big Nate book, and it is. Nate breaks his harm in the middle of this, and so the Lincoln Peirce does some cool synthesis with the drawing of other characters in order to keep this book moving. I think the way he combines writing, illustrations of the world, Nate's cartoons, and other in-world drawings is pretty impressive. He manages to fit all those things in a very short story, and it still manages to keep a smooth stream-of-consciousness feel.

I'm reading this and other books to break up reading a massive Don DeLilloDon DeLillo novel.

[Deborah · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book is even funnier than i remember from my childhood.
i literally laughed out loud multiple times.
this book is better than 90% of books I've read this year ngl. short and funny and cute and sweet.
read it in 1 sitting and loved every single second. these books deserve diary of a wimpy kid level hype.
(also i am so brain rotted but reading this as an adult nate and deedee are so enemies to lovers LOL. i remember loving deedee smmmm as a kid bc she looked like me and talks a lot like me and ugh i love her so much more now)

[Ričards Bekmanis · Rating 5 out of 5]

ok

[Caleb]

it was my favorite book out of the whole series but I still think that it could have been better

[Derek · Rating 5 out of 5]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[anthony · Rating 5 out of 5]

My mom just died yesterday day and this got me happy

My mom just died yesterday day and this got me happy. So I don’t have a mom any more so I’m fucking sooo sad

[Isabelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

The ringo of the group! :(

[Ro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good

[Erik · Rating 5 out of 5]

Niek had bijna goed nieuws dat de school werd verbouwd, maar ze moesten naar de school genaamd 'De Windmolen' en wat er dan gebeurd moet je zelf achter komen. Aanrader!

[Keerthi Attaluri · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another classic

[Marqueur · Rating 5 out of 5]

goated childhood book

[Oliver · Rating 5 out of 5]

Big Nate goes for broke is a very funny, I think the author did a very good job at describing the details

[Sebastiaan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Het was heel leuk,spannend,grappig

[Nguyễn Vy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thông điệp tập này ấn tượng phết, về việc giáo dục trẻ theo định hướng dù khiến tài năng tụi nhỏ càng ngày càng nở rộ nhưng có khiến trẻ mất đi niềm vui của sự sáng tạo hay không? Tác giả nói là có nghen

[London · Rating 4 out of 5]

i liked this book because Nate is enraged to find out Jefferson is better than them. Later in the book, he goes to a dance. Trouble starts when the fire alarm goes off. The school is closed and the kids