The 14 Fibs of Gregory K.

by Greg Pincus

2013

Status

Available

Call number

Pincus

Genres

Children's Books

Fiction

Collection

Realistic Fiction

Publication

Arthur A. Levine Books (2013), 240 pages

Description

Gregory Korenstein-Jasperton is an eleven-year-old boy who likes to write stories and poems and is not excited by math, but he has a problem--he is the middle child in a family of math geniuses and his father expects him to participate in the City Math contest.

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LibraryThing member librarian1204

A very good elementary school read for students who are pressured to achieve in areas that do not interest them. Gregory comes from a family of math geniuses. But, Gregory likes to write and he does that very well. His best friend, Kelly, is going to be moving during the summer and she wants

Gregory to join her at author camp. They have both been writing and sharing their writings for years. However, Gregory, in trying to live with the math expectations of his father has entered the city math contest. Finding a way through all the tales he has been telling to a satisfactory conclusion makes a very good story. The book is well done with good characters and some good insights into parental expectations and a very perceptive teacher. Plus those Fibonacci Fibs!

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LibraryThing member pataustin

Eleven-year old Gregory fibs to his family that he loves math; it’s easier, he thinks, than squaring with his math-loving family that he loves writing. His father, years before, and now his brother won the annual City Math contest, and Gregory is in danger of failing math class. He fibs to his

best friend that he’s going with her to Author’s Camp. His parents have other plans –Math Camp. For extra credit in math, Gregory applies for the City Math contest with the title for his project: Fibonacci Sequence and Me. He doesn’t win, but he devises and presents a new poetic form which he calls Fibs, each poem with the structure following the Fibonacci sequence: 1 1 2 3 5 8. Readers who share Gregory’s attitude toward math will resonate with this light-hearted story.

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LibraryThing member wrightja2000

Starting the third chapter and I don't know if I can make it through this book because of the MC's clueless, obnoxious, and unkind family. They are driving me nuts...
Ok, finished it. It was a cute read.

LibraryThing member reader1009

children's realistic fiction (school). For a story about a boy that doesn't like math, there sure is a lot of math in here, and as a reader that doesn't mind math (approves of it, even), I didn't enjoy the math bits.

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