The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown

by Betsy Byars

Book Overview

A boy is puzzled by the comic and confusing questions of youth and worried by disturbing insights into adult conflicts. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670819328
• ISBN13: 9780670819324
• Release Date: May 1988
• Publisher: Viking Children's Books
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

bingo brown

bingo brown is kid that goes to school to met his new teacher when he finds out that the teacher is acttually pretty cool. after a few weeks he breaks his pencil so he could find out what the three gurls that he likes are writing about till he does it so much that the teacher finds out what bingo is doing. Then a few weeks later a kid wears a shirt that the princpal doesn't like, so the princpal made a a rule that if you wear a shirt with letters on it he will send them home. After ever thing ends Bingo finds out that what he did was write and that he won the rule over the letters on the shirt.

There's no one else like Bingo Brown!

I read this book more than 10 years ago in elementary school. It was such a memorable experience that I bought a copy of it recently. Its quite charming - funny and serious at times. Bingo Brown reminds me of one of those kids from the Francois Traffaut film Argent de poche (Small Change). I would recommend it for 4th-6th graders and to those grown-ups who remember that they were children first.

I have a schoolgirl crush on Bingo Brown

Bingo writes that he falls in love with three girls in one day! That gets me. Better yet: he falls in love with one (Melissa, by far the most charismatic of the three) because in an assignment she says she wants to be a scientist by day and a rock star by night. I don't know about you, but that gives me new career aspirations. I love everything Bingo does. He wears a "Mozart Rocks" shirt. He gets freaked out by the neighbor's misty eyed poodle. He misconstrues his mother's sarcasm and starts a schoolwide rebellion. He writes many, many burning questions. This is a witty, emotional book, the best of the Bingo Brown series. Read it to a kid, or just read it for a fun, light read.

Bingo Brown battles censorship and oppression

Bingo Brown is an ordinary kid who tackles The Man and battles censorship in this action packed laugh-a-minute snap of a read