Thanksgiving Turkey Trouble

Ready, Freddy! #15

by Abby Klein, John McKinley (Illustrator)

With more than two million copies sold, READY, FREDDY! is a huge success with first-grade readers!

It's a Thanksgiving disaster for Freddy Thresher! When his first-grade class begins planning the annual Thanksgiving play, everyone will have a role. Freddy's friends are all happy to be Pilgrims and Indians, but there is one part that nobody wants to be-the turkey! Freddy hopes he won't get the part, but-you guessed it-he gets the unlucky role. Now Freddy has to find a way to play the turkey while everyone is laughing at him.

Genres: Thanksgiving, Childrens, Chapter Books, Fiction, Holiday, School, 1st Grade

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Abby Klein was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She earned her teaching credentials at Dartmouth College, where she majored in psychology and education. She then went on to earn her master's degree in reading and language development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Currently she teaches in the same public elementary school she attended as a child in the Los Angeles area. She has been a kindergarten and first-grade teacher there for more than fifteen years and is very involved in the school community, as both a teacher and a parent. Her two young children also attend the school where she teaches. In addition, she is a “teacher-leader” in her district, and over the years, she has presented many staff development workshops both at the district level and at her school site that centered on reading, writing, and literacy. She has been a presenter at national conferences as well.

In her first published series, Ready, Freddy!, Klein brings just the right amount of true-to-life humor and drama. She brings young readers a fresh voice, a great sense of humor, and a unique perspective on the trials and tribulations of first grader Freddy Thresher. Utterly authentic and drawn from real experience in the classroom, Abby Klein knows exactly what first graders are thinking.

She lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband, two children, and three dogs. She thinks there's nothing better than a good book, and she loves reading aloud to children.

Reviews

[Family Book Nook · Rating 2 out of 5]

Do not recommend. 80% of the plot and dialogue centers around teasing and complaining.

[Terry · Rating 3 out of 5]

I tend to pick up the books in this series when the library doesn't have books in the other few early chapter book series that I read. The main character, Freddy, is amusing, though I'm not a fan of his parents, particularly his obsessively tidy mother (she was less annoying in this book than in some others). The story in this book had a good message, and I always like trying to find the word FIN somewhere in the illustrations. All in all, I thought this was one of the better in the series. Recommended for kids in grades 1-3, depending on reading ability.

[Bryan Sermeno · Rating 1 out of 5]

I kind of liked this book because it was kind of sad...SIKE!I'm just kidding but anyways its about this lil kid that is having athanksgiving thingy with his class and they had to pick parts by picking it out of the hat so this kid named freddy was worried dat he might get tha turkey part and that everybody was gonna make fun of him. she said you get wat you get and you dont get upset and so finally the day came and they had to pick their parts and guess wat da kid gets........da TURKEY!!!!!@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@@#!@#@#%^$$@^*()_()_I+&*_(%)#@@@!@*_____":!!!!!!~~~~~~~~~~

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

This would be good to demonstrate a play with your classroom. It's good to use to discuss pilgrims, and then have the students themselves perform a play for their parents!

[Sam · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the book at was really catchy and it had an exiting part at each part of the book!

[Reagan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I recommend this book to all children that are having school plays. I was also nervous to be on stage the first time. I enjoyed this book because it was funny when Freddy was dancing with his principal.

[10TX · Rating 4 out of 5]

Previewed for my child. There was some snarkiness from the kids, but there was also consequences. Mostly completely unobjectionable content with some positive lessons.

[Mindy Williams · Rating 2 out of 5]

A fun read for the preschool kids.

[Bonnie Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this book out loud to my First Graders. They seemed to really enjoy it and I thought it was really cute!

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

There aren’t many children’s books with a Thanksgiving theme so I was happy when my daughter brought this book home from her school’s library. She’s five years old and loves the Ready Freddie book series. This book was a fun book for us to read together. The only thing I don’t like is that some of the kids call each other names. I was worried that my daughter would start calling her brothers those names, but luckily she didn’t. This is a great middle grade series for both boys and girls.

[Nancy · Rating 3 out of 5]

The previous first grade teacher (who retired)had this in her stash of books, so I decided to read it to my class. It was OK. A little too much name calling for my taste, but a couple of good lessons.

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

This would be a great book for first and second graders. This chapter book has minimal pictures, but still allows students to enjoy the book. Part of the "Ready, Freddy!" reading series, this would be a great book to have in the classroom for early readers.

[Katherine · Rating 2 out of 5]

Okay, Ready, Freddy was neither as good nor as lame as I thought it would be. Klein doesn't quite seem to have a handle on children here, but kids would still read it.

[Adaliza Flores]

This book looks interesting to me.

[Christi · Rating 3 out of 5]

My girls really liked it... PB (6) moreso than Mei Mei (3.5). I think we will have to look into more Ready Freddy books.

[Erica · Rating 5 out of 5]

The plot is very similar to Marc Brown's Arthur's Thanksgiving - Freddy gets the dreaded role of the Thanksgiving turkey. My 6 year-old loves this series.

[Emily · Rating 2 out of 5]

Fine read aloud. Probably won't make it a yearly tradition or anything.

[Seth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Suzzie teased Freddy about being the turkey that it was a bad part but it wasn't Freddy figured out to be a dancing turkey by the principal.

[Leslie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reid is my reader.
we take turns with each page and I love hearing the inflections in my sons voice.

if you have a 1st/2nd grader the Freddy books are a must.

[Ella · Rating 4 out of 5]

it was a good book and I really liked it!!!!!!!

[Kerry · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read with my 6yo son.

[Krista · Rating 3 out of 5]

My second graders enjoyed Freddy!

[Lucy]

its about Freddy's first grade class is getting ready for a play for Thanksgiving and he want to have a cool part in the play.

[Teresa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Recommended by second grandson as BWB challenge of a book recommended by someone 30 yr younger or older.

[Willow · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like how he solved his problem.

[Melynne (mels_booknook) · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a great read aloud for my first grade class! They loved it!