7.8 /10 1 Votes
Illustrator Lincoln Peirce Language English Pages 216 Publisher HarperCollins | 4.4/5 Goodreads 4.2/5 Barnes & Noble Country United States Publication date 2013 Originally published 5 February 2013 Page count 216 ISBN 9780062009326 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Paperback and Hardcover) Genres Comedy, Children's literature, Comic strip Similar Lincoln Peirce books, Big Nate Book Series books, Children's literature | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Big Nate: Flips Out is a realistic fiction novel by American cartoonist Lincoln Peirce. It is based on the comic strip and is the 5th book in the Big Nate novel series. The book was released in 2013. It is aimed at children aged 8 to 12. It was published by HarperCollins Publishers.
Contents
Plot
Francis is annoyed that Nate is messy and calls him a slob. Nate then accuses Francis of having color coded underwear, and wedgies him. Later, Nate and his friends go to the yearbook meeting, surprised to find that the official editor of the yearbook is Gina. Nate then nominates Francis as co-editor of the yearbook, Mrs. Hickson approves and Gina gets angry at Nate. Nate wants to take candids for the yearbook, so he and his friends find Mrs Godfrey for a camera, Francis collects it as Mrs. Godfrey would not approve of Nate having the camera. In the yard, Randy throws the camera away, but Nick catches it and gives a lecture on Nate. Nate plans to get an embarrassing photo of Gina after she puts up a poster of retake day, using Nate's hideous school picture. But when looking for the camera in his locker, he cannot find it. And Francis accuses Nate of losing it, even though he didn't, Nate and Francis shout at each other, Nate reveals that Francis' middle name is Butthurst in front of the whole school, Randy then bullies Francis about it. Nate wants to be neat so he and Francis can be friends again, so he gets hypnotised, which he finds uncomfortable. Being neat gets him better grades but stops him from doing his favourite hobbies. When Nate sees Randy bullying Francis about his middle name again, he attacks him, almost winning a fight with Randy in the process. Nate gets stopped and is sent to the principal's office. After a lecture with the principal, Nate finds the camera in his locker and finds out that the fight with Randy unhypnotised him. He also finds out that Nick stole the camera, this results in him getting suspended for a week. The next day, it is the Trivia Slam. And Nate's team beats Gina's team, thanks to Nate's phobia of cats.
Characters
These characters appear in the book:
Reception
The book was rated 4.37 starts on Goodreads. The whole series was listed 117 times in the New York Times best seller list, it included Big Nate: Flips Out, along with a few other books in the series at times.