Big Nate Makes the Grade by Lincoln Peirce, 224 pages

Self-described comic genius Big Nate keeps parents and teaching on their toes in this hilarious, New York Times best-selling series that has sold more than 4.5 million copies.

Nate Wright is known to his pals and teachers for many things, his penchant for mischief and his school record for detentions being the foremost. But beating out brainiac Gina's grades is not one of those things! In Big Nate Makes the Grade, the school life goings-on of Nate, his pals, and his long-suffering teachers are recounted in hilarious detail.

Big Nate in a Class by Himself by Lincoln Peirce, 214 pages

This is the first book in the series that my kids have been fighting over and got me hooked on. I really like the mix of pictures in the story, making it seem like a kid's journal with all the doodles and such. Nate is not a kid I would want to have, but would have been great to be friends with.