SOLVED. Childrens book. Boy who reads a phone book to win a reading contest. Read around 2000. [s]

[Ashley]

As stated above the book is about a boy who wants to win a book reading contest at school. The person who reads the book with the most pages will win the contest. He decides to read the phone book as it's the biggest book he can think of. While reading the phone book he comes across all the entries with his name. His first name was something like Sam or Dan something short but the plot included his last name as well which I don't remember. He decides to invite all of the people with his name to his birthday party that year and a bunch of them show up, all ages, and the oldest is like 89 or something.

[Ashley]

There's a very small chance I am mixing plot lines with a separate book about a boy who reads a dictionary to win the reading contest in that case I do not remember what prompts him to see the list of people with his name.

[RabbitMilitia]

Hi Ashley! Sorry I don't know the name of your book, but I think you will want to move this to the Unsolved folder.

[Liz]

How about The Adventures of Ali Baba Bernstein?

[Ashley]

Liz you are correct, I updated the post the other day showing that was the book and it was solved. Is it still showing in unsolved??

[Kris]

Glad you found your book, Ashley.

The Adventures of Ali Baba Bernstein of the Ali Baba Bernstein series by Johanna Hurwitz - Liz's find.