If Kids Ruled the School is a collection of school poems. There is not a central lesson or message in this book, but there is a central theme- school. There are poems about riding the bus (The Bus and The Back of the Bus), teachers (Mrs. DeBuss), grades (F’s are “Fabulous”), tests (Testing, Testing, Testing!), school rules (School Rules), homework (Homework and My Doggy Ate My Homework), school lunches (Cafteri-Yuck!), and so many other topics. This book contains forty-eight poems by famous poets like Shel Silverstein, Jack Prelutsky, and Judith Viorst as well as poets who are becoming well-known including Kenn Nesbitt, Ted Scheu, Dave Crawley, Robert Pottle, and Timothy Tocher. Each poem in this book is guaranteed to make readers grin and/or laugh. ( )

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