Reading: BIG NATE: SILENT BUT DEADLY - Lincoln Peirce

The nineteenth book in the laugh-out-loud-often Big Nate comic collection series finds everyone's favorite sixth-grader dealing ever more with bossy schoolteachers, disagreeing friends, and even his arch-rival Gina, the school suck-up who gets great grades and epitomizes "teacher's pet" - and the one fellow student Nate wants to take down most, even to the point of calling her out, in class, in relation to the title of this collection (ahem). In this one Nate also helps to school a detention newbie, shows off his almost supernatural sense of smell, shreds the egos of a couple teachers as a reporter for the school paper, and even hosts a battle of wits between Gina and his best friend Francis called the Fact Town Smackdown. Another witty, funny collection featuring Big Nate taking down the establishment, even when they get some good, mostly-deserved licks in on the kid themselves.  4/5 stars

NOTE: I received a free ARC of this title from NetGalley and the publisher, in exchange for an honest review.