Reading Level: 8-12
Awards:None

A goofy, over-the-top, madcap adventure for kids from the same mind that created [b:Big Trouble|893731|Big Trouble|Dave Barry|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1334489103s/893731.jpg|1807862].

Note: I received an ARC from the publisher. ( )

Very funny. We loved listening to it! ( )

Kind of like Dave Barry's "Big Trouble" written for a middle school audience. Nerdy, timid and cautious Wyatt Palmer is on a middle school class trip to Washington, D.C., and trouble starts on the plane trip there, when he and his best friend Matt begin to suspect that the two "weird guys" behind them on the plane might be terrorists. They, along with a few other friends, including the completely fearless Suzana (on whom Wyatt has a terriffic crush), quickly become deeply involved in international espionage, and the pace of the antics increases steadily right up to the end of the book.
Fun, light, silly, and wonderfully plotted and told. ( )

The Worst Class Trip Ever is basically a kids' version of Dave Barry's wacky-hijinks novels for adults. I thought it bordered on ridiculous most of the time; maybe I could call it ludicrous. The fart jokes were overdone. As ludicrous and implausible as nearly everything was, the one thing I couldn't suspend disbelief for was a character buying a pistol-shaped cigarette lighter in a gift shop. I thought those things (and jokes about them) had gone the way of the Dodo, especially in post 9/11 America. It was satisfactory enough that I'll read the sequel, but I preferred Barry's Science Fair.