Aberdeen Reads... The Math Curse

The Math Curse, by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith, is hilarious.  A young boy thinks his teacher put a math curse on him when he can't stop turning everything in his life into a math problem.  His problems and answers get more and more complicated.

"I am now a raving math lunatic.  What if this keeps up for a whole year?  How many minutes of math madness would that be?"

"'What's your problem?' says my sister."

"'365 days x 24 hours x 60 minutes.'  I snarl."

This book would be a great read aloud for older kids in fifth through eighth grades, because they would recognize the hilarity of his math vocabulary.  You could extend the lesson and actually try to solve one of his problems.  Even the adults in the room had a good laugh over some of his answer choices.