SOLVED. Kids Who Attempt to Break Guinness Records [s]

[Cori]

Trying to remember a book where children try to break a Guinness Record (any record!!). I specifically remember seed spitting. I am 24 now and probably read it at an appropriate age. Chapter book but for young readers.

[Andria]

Is it I'm Going to Be Famousby Tom Birdseye?

Edit: I think the Goodreads description of this book may be wrong. The Google books description is "Determined to achieve fame by breaking several oddball world records in an upcoming contest, Arlo Moore and his friends practice fiendishly under the disapproval of their parents and school principal."

[Andria]

WorldCat gives the same description as Google books, so I'm going to edit the GR record.

[Cori]

Looking good, I'm remembering a banana thing. I'll look into it later to verify!

[bookel]

Was this solved?

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Corinne, was Andria's suggestion your book?

[Molly]

"Wilmot And Chips" By Alex Shearer?

[Dee]

there is one and i'm blanking on the name - where there was a group of girls - maybe 11-13 age range, and they were trying to break the world record for writing the longest poem with stanza's to try and break the world record

[Kris]

Andria's suggestion of I'm Going to Be Famous looks hopeful. Here's a description from AllReaders.com:

"Banana-lover Arlo Moore is going to be famous. How? By devouring seventeen bananas in less than two minutes and becoming the new banana-eating champion of The Guinness Book of World Records! And he's not alone. His best friend Ben wants to set a record for lemon-eating while Arlo's sister Kerry and her friend Mike decide to break records for melon-seed spitting and ice cream-eating. As the kids train obsessively for their record-making attempts, parents worry about their health, bullies sabotage their training sessions, and the entire school bets on their success -- or failure. Will the kids break their records?"

[Sue]

I think this is one of the Bagthorpe books by Helen Cresswell.

[Kate]

This is in the solved folder, but I'm not sure which book is the answer. Usually we don't move it to Solved until the OP verifies the book. Thanks,

[Rainbowheart]

Did we ever figure out which book this was?

Stage Fright also has kids trying to break a Guinness world record.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Corinne, was Andria's suggestion your book?"

No response in 6 years but based on the seed spitting scene let's call it Solved. Someone (Corinne?) had already moved it to Solved.

[Cori]

Yes, I think it was the one!

[Anaconda]

Dee wrote: "there is one and i'm blanking on the name - where there was a group of girls - maybe 11-13 age range, and they were trying to break the world record for writing the longest poem with stanza's to tr..."

Dee, did you remember what that book was? I am looking for something similar. Thanks in advance!

[Rainbowheart]

Anaconda, the book Dee is describing is Stage Fright.

The girls change gears quickly, as kids will, and work on their poem for The Guinness Book of World Records. The poem is a fanfic about the lives of Barbie and Ken, and the girls hope it will be the longest poem ever written by kids.

Sara, Wendy and Carol finish 350 stanzas of "The Saga of Barbie and Ken". The girls are preparing to send off the poem to actor Sir Alec Guinness when Wendy catches her sister Katie (of Martin's subsequent book Me and Katie (the Pest)) spying at the door.

After they talk about the rehearsal, Sara mentions the epic poem the girls sent to the actor Alec Guinness. Her father sets her straight on their mistake, and Sara scrambles to write another letter to Alec asking him to send back the poem.

We end with Wendy coming over to Sara's with the news that Sir Alec Guinness sent back the saga after having read it. In a letter accompanying the returned poem, he compliments their writing and apologizes that he doesn't have anything to do with the Guinness Book. Sara and Wendy go off to find Carol and Jennifer to add more stanzas to the saga.

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