Gail Gauthier Books In Order

Girl, a Boy Books In Order

  1. A Girl, a Boy, and a Monster Cat (2007)
  2. A Girl, A Boy, and Three Robbers (2008)

Novels

  1. My Life Among the Aliens (1996)
  2. A Year with Butch and Spike (1998)
  3. Club Earth (1999)
  4. The Hero of Ticonderoga (2001)
  5. Saving the Planet & Stuff (2003)
  6. Happy Kid! (2006)

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Gail Gauthier Books Overview

A Girl, a Boy, and a Monster Cat

Sam’s house would have been the perfect place for Brandon to go after school. The big screen TV is on all the time, and Sam is a boy. Instead, Brandon s mom sends him to Hannah s, where he is forced to play imaginary games in which Hannah is always the hero. Even the cat, Buttercup, gets more exciting roles than Brandon. Then a new neighbor moves in with a tiny dog who is actually quite fierce. He gives Hannah lots of material for games, but when Buttercup defends her territory with some malicious tactics, reality becomes much more exciting than fiction.

With humor perfect for 2nd and 3rd graders, Gail is certain to win over this younger audience.

A Girl, A Boy, and Three Robbers

Perfect humor for 2nd and 3rd graders.

When Brandon has to go to Hannah’s house after school, she always gets to be the leader while he has to play her sidekick or some villain she s out to destroy. Then the horrible Sunderland kids try to steal Hannah s monster cat, Buttercup, and suddenly Brandon and Hannah have an exciting real life mission on their hands. All the games of vampire hunter and enemy agent in the world couldn t have prepared them for the task of saving Buttercup from the Sunderlands grubby clutches.

A Year with Butch and Spike

Straight A student Jasper Gordon has always loved his teachers, and they have always loved him. Then he meets his sixth grade teacher, Mrs. McNulty a.k.a. the McNutt. She seats him between the two most notorious bad kids in school, cousins Butch and Spike Couture, in the hopes that some of his goodness will rub off on them. She never dreamed that the opposite could happen…
.’Spike and Butch are the most hilariously annoying classroom cut ups since Barbara Robinson’s Herdmans in The Best Christmas Pageant Ever 1972 and The Best School Year Ever 1994.’ Kirkus Reviews

Club Earth

Club Med takes on a new dimension in this sequel to My Life Among the Aliens. The Denis family is blackmailed by Saliva, a slimy alien into turning their home into a resort for vacationing extraterrestrials. ‘We’re going to run a hotel!’ Will shrieks with joy. The trouble is Mom says that as the planet’s ambassadors, they have to make a good impression, which can only happen if there is no dirty underwear lying on the floor. Before he knows it, Will’s become the family expert on centralized vacuuming and there are all sorts of new rules. Will has real concerns ‘What if aliens are offended by cleanliness?’, but Mom cannot be swayed. Will, Rob and Dad have no problem letting aliens sleep in their beds…
but housework? Once again, Gauthier gives new insight into the mayhem called ‘family life,’ in eight episodes featuring deadpan humor of cosmic proportions. The Denis Family Reacts To Being Blackmailed:Dad: ‘I hope what I’m about to ask isn’t rude or anything, but these clients of yours they won’t be higher on the food chain than we are, will they?’Robby: ‘We’d be the only people we know having aliens sleep over!’Mom: ‘Houseguests mean a lot of extra cooking and cleaning. Has anyone thought about who is going to do all that extra work?’Will: ‘We’ll take care of them. We’ll do all the extra work. I swear we will.’Mom: ‘Will, that’s what you and Robby said about the fish you wanted a couple of years ago. You remember how that turned out?’Robby again: ‘Please! Please! Please, Mommy!’

The Hero of Ticonderoga

Gail Gauthier ‘does not skimp on any chance for humor’ SLJ, especially the deadpan, irreverent kind. Meet her first female protagonist in a classroom comedy filled with truth. School isn’t a strong point for Therese LeClerc. She doesn’t get invited to the parties she’d like to go to, and she isn’t happy about the way she looks. As for her family, well, Therese’s fondest hope is that she has been kidnapped by these people who claim to be her parents. When she is stuck doing an oral report on Ethan Allen leader of the American victory of Fort Ticonderoga in the Revolutionary War, she’s convinced he’s just a boring, old, dead guy. But after giving the report several different times until she gets it right, not only does she know more about the outrageous Ethan Allen than she could possibly want, she knows that heroes can take many different forms.

Saving the Planet & Stuff

Michael Racine lives in a world of highly successful and accomplished teenagers. Unfortunately, he isn’t one of them. He knows it, and he’s afraid everyone else does too. So when he gets the chance to intern at a magazine run by friends of his grandparents, he jumps at it. The Earth’s Wife, founded in the 1960s, is a famous environmental magazine, and Walt and Nora live what they preach. Tofu, solar energy, composting toilets…
. By the end of the car ride with Walt and Nora to Vermont, Michael is having serious second thoughts. Too bad it’s too late. Gauthier explores what can happen when a typical, self absorbed teenage boy is influenced by radical, environmentally concerned senior citizens in her fifth novel. The possibilities for humor are endless.

Happy Kid!

All cynical Kyle wants is to get through the seventh grade unnoticed, but a self help book from his well meaning mother changes all that. Magically, the book seems to know all about him. And it wants him to improve his life.

Not only is he friendless, mistakenly taking super difficult accelerated courses, and infamous for allegedly being involved in a violent ‘incident’ on the bus a rep that has the school terror sticking to him like glue, one of the true A Kids wants to lure him into questioning whether his class cheated on their state exams. How could a book help anyone through this kind of misery?

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