In the third episode of James Patterson's bestselling series, Jamie Grimm is one step closer to becoming the best kid comic in the world, but he's facing his biggest challenge yet. Jamie's struggles with his disability, and other's perception of it, are not usually addressed with such frankness. The authors skip the usual angles - clueless parents, nerdiness, annoying siblings, absent or distracted parent, gross out humor, social awkwardness - in favor of a different sort of story that has an authentic feel, or at least a reasonable approximation of an authentic feel. Fun, unstuffy and wise’ Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week ‘It will have your children in stitches!

Um miúdo que anda de cadeira de rodas, sofre de bulling na escola por parte dos colegas e para ultrapassar esse constrangimento recorre ao lema “rir é o melhor remédio”. When the competition is postponed, he has two more weeks to worry, and THEN a big storm hits the east coast and destroys his home as well as his uncle's restaurant.But in the majority of this book all this new found fame seemed to get the better of him and make him a complete jerk. Apesar de ter considerado a sua leitura muito superficial é um livro que recomendo para os leitoras mais jovens, uma vez que, é recheado de lições importantes e com ensinamentos de ouro.

At first, this is GREAT – all the kids at school think he’s cool and he gets to appear on his favourite morning TV show.It goes with the typical, "ups and downs" story, with how they will have good moments and bad moments. When he finds out about the contest for the Funniest Kid on the Planet, he realises it’s time to face the music and prove himself. In the previous books Jamie was orphaned by a car accident killing his mom, dad, and his little sister Jenny. The trilogy is about Jamie in school and competing in various contests to try to prove he is the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic.

Jamie’s difficulties fitting into a new place and processing his grief make this story of a middle schooler overcoming bullying and self-doubt heart-warming as well as hilarious.

A. getting prepared to perform when he finds out that in his hometown there has been a huge storm that wiped out everything in its path.