Books with title I Hate School

A hilarious picture book from about a little girl who truly hates school—or does she? Honor Brown cannot find a good word to say about her school despite much prompting. She insists that her teacher is a warty toad, the water tray has killer sharks in it, and even her friends are loathsome. But when the time comes to move on to "Big School," she sits in the corner and sobs. Maybe it wasn't so bad after all!

Nilly is a rebellious eleven-year-old girl who hates school, her parents and her life. No one understands her. Everyone thinks she’s ungrateful, whiny and annoying, but she’s really inquisitive, compassionate and open-hearted. Nilly has no friends. Yes, she does, but Pax doesn’t exist in reality, not the reality of most people anyway. Pax helps her cope in a mad world, but when she’s drugged to fit school, punitive parenting and a life decided by experts according to acceptable life plans she finally sets her own life plan in motion.Nilly runs away from home and finds a new home on a farm run by two elderly people for school sick children and youth. Nilly learns to grow food and tell stories and finds a new kind of love. When her parents find her and drag her back to a life that’s not hers she has to fight to stay alive. Forced back in line will she set her longstanding plan B in motion to free herself from a life of someone else’s choosing? Who can save her when she has no one, as even her imaginary friend has abandoned her since her stint of freedom? I hate school is a story about the unconventional life and following one’s own heart even when it doesn’t agree with the rules and regulations of ancient institutions and adults with power over children.

A hilarious picture book about the joys of school, from a winning writer/illustrator partnership.Honour Brown does not have a good word to say for her school despite much prompting. Her teacher is a warty toad, the sandpit has killer sharks in it, and even her friends are horrible. But when the times comes to move onto “big school,” she sits in the corner and sobs! Maybe it wasn’t so bad, after all.

Nilly is a rebellious eleven-year-old girl who hates school, her parents and her life. No one understands her. Everyone thinks she’s ungrateful, whiny and annoying, but she’s really inquisitive, compassionate and open-hearted. Nilly has no friends. Yes, she does, but Pax doesn’t exist in reality, not the reality of most people anyway. Pax helps her cope in a mad world, but when she’s drugged to fit school, punitive parenting and a life decided by experts according to acceptable life plans she finally sets her own life plan in motion. Nilly runs away from home and finds a new home on a farm run by two elderly people for school sick children and youth. Nilly learns to grow food and tell stories and finds a new kind of love. When her parents find her and drag her back to a life that’s not hers, she has to fight to stay alive. Forced back in line will she set her longstanding plan B in motion to free herself from a life of someone else’s choosing? Who can save her when she has no one, as even her imaginary friend has abandoned her since her stint of freedom? I hate school is a story about the unconventional life and following one’s own heart even when it doesn’t agree with the rules and regulations of ancient institutions and adults with power over children.