Superfudge
Sometimes life in the Hatcher household is enough to make twelve-year-old Peter think about running away. His worst problem is still his younger brother, Fudge, who hasn't changed a bit since his crazy capers in Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. If you ask Peter, Fudge is just an older — and bigger — pain.
Then Peter learns that his mom is going to have a baby and the whole family is moving to Princeton for a year. It will be bad enough starting sixth grade in a strange place without his friends and going to the same school as Fudge. But Peter can imagine something even worse. How will he ever survive if the new baby is a carbon copy of Fudge?
Texas Bluebonnet Award (1982); Beehive Award for Children's Fiction (1982); West Australian Young Readers' Book Award for Younger Readers (1982); Nene Award (1982); North Dakota Children's Choice Award (1982); Colorado Children's Book Award (1982); Buckeye Children's Book Award (1982); California Young Reader Medal (1983); Young Hoosier Book Award (1983); Garden State Children's Book Awards (1983); Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award (1983); Iowa Children's Choice Award (1983); Golden Sower Award (1983); Grand Canyon Reader Award (1983); New Mexico Land of Enchantment Book Award (1984); Sunshine State Young Readers Award (1984); Virginia Readers' Choice Award (1985); Flicker Tale Children's Book Award (1987); Soaring Eagle Book Award (1989); California Young Reader Medal for Intermediate (1983); Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards for Read Alone (1990)
About the Fudge Series
Books in series order
- 1.Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing(1972)
- 2.Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great(1972)
- 3.Superfudge(1980)
- 4.Fudge-a-Mania(1990)
- 5.Double Fudge(2002)
Reading age: 7+ years
This series should be read in order.
Life with his little brother, Fudge, makes Peter Hatcher feel like a fourth grade nothing. Whether Fudge is throwing a temper tantrum in a shoe store, smearing mashed potatoes on the walls at Hamburger Heaven, or trying to fly, he’s never far from trouble. He’s an almost three-year-old terror who gets away with everything, and Peter’s had it up to here!
Passed on from babysitters to their young charges, from big sisters to little brothers, and from parents to children, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and its cousins (Superfudge, Fudge-a-mania, Double Fudge and Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great) have entertained children since they first appeared in the early 1970s. The series follows Peter Hatcher, his little brother Fudgie, baby sister Tootsie, their neighbor Sheila Tubman, various pets, and minor characters through New York City and on treks to suburbs and camps. Hilarious, witty and impossible to put down.