Horrible Harry and the Dead Letters

Horrible Harry #23

by Suzy Kline, Frank Remkiewicz (Illustrator), Amy Wummer (Illustrations)

When the post office has donated a real mailbox to room 3B, everyone gets jobs as sorters, stackers, and carriers. ZuZu is in charge of the misaddressed, or dead, letters. But Harry discovers that a thief is using the mailbox for something other than letters. Will he sort out what?s going on? Or will Harry deliver some horribly wrong conclusions?

Genres: Mystery, Childrens, Chapter Books, Fiction, School Stories, School, Realistic Fiction

80 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Suzy Kline, nee Weaver, was an elementary school teacher for 25 years and most of her books are based on the experiences she had while teaching. Suzy and Rufus got married and had two daughters named Jennifer and Emily. Now, more than 24 years after writing her first book, Suzy has traveled all over the United States helping children learn how to enjoy reading and writing.

Reviews

[Susy C. *MotherLambReads*]

My 4th boy loved this book. We read it out loud.

I appreciate it teaching about truth and hard work.

[Sterrett Family]

Daniel: This book is among my favorites. I really enjoyed it, and have many books in the Horrible Harry series and devoured many of them.

[Anthony]

Doug tells the tale when Horrible Harry solved the case of the missing bookmarks. The case takes place in class 3B during the time the class had their own post office, and were learning about poetry and how to write poems.

[Danielle]

This is the first book in the series without the original illustrator, and the art is still good, just not what I grew up with. This also solidifies Sidney and Mary as the worst characters in the series.

[Nato]

I enjoyed that she creatively taught them a lesson so they could feel what she felt.

[Misbah]

Horrible Harry and his class learn about how the mail system works and what happens to dead letters, letters that don't have a proper address.
Didn't enjoy it much.

[Sydney]

its about room 3B is getting a mail box and they all have jobs so when Sidney writes a letter it gets in the dead letter box because he didn't put the name or the row number on it and Mary's book mark went missing a few days later Ida's and Song Lee's book mark went missing so they figure out that Sidney stole Mary's book mark to get even with her because she didn't like his poem then Mary stole Ida's and Song lee's to make her feel better then when Mrs.Mackle heard about it they both lost their jobs.

[Ms. Manz]

Harry's class is doing a poetry unit in this book, just like us! I might read this aloud to the class so we can copy his class's project.

They also have a real mailbox in their classroom that they use to mail letters to each other - I think we should get one!

I'm going to put this in the Mystery box in our classroom. If you read it and think it should go in a different bin, let me know!

[Christie Rice]

This is another great book with a mystery for Horrible Harry. The setting of this book is in the classroom and the children are learning how the mail is delivered until someone takes some of the mail and it's up to Harry and his classmates to find out who it is.

[Marlee]

My children (4 and 8) both enjoyed this book. The plot is lacking for an adult, but engaging for young children. My children especially loved the poems at the end and it started them writing their own color poems.

[Trevor Anderson]

i just read horrible harry and the dead letters. it is about room 3B getting a mailbox and everyone has to send poetry to each other . but then people are losing book marks but it turns out it was in the mail box the hole time because someone hide them.

[Megan Miller]

When Harry's class gets a real mail box all the students get jobs. Harry's title is the facer and his job is to make sure the mail is facing the correct way. something wierd begins to happen and Harry must figure out just what is going on with the letters.

[Terri]

good read for the age group...interesting approach to the storytelling...the person doing the storytelling is not "horrible harry" and yet it is told from the first person point of view

[Shannon Rickert]

horrible harry isnt always so horrible i guess!!

[Deborah]

Doug tells the story of how his friend and classmate Harry solves the mystery of the missing rainbow bookmarks. A cute read.

Grades 2-3.

[Kevin Hemphill]

Okay as a class read. A students' choice not mine.

[K.C.]

"It was OK, not great." -K

[Emily]

I love it.

Great book you should read it.