Name: How to Make Friends and Monsters (A Howard Boward Book)
Rating: 4.19 (26 reviews)
Author: Ron Bates
ISBN: 9780310736073

How to Make Friends and Monsters (A Howard Boward Book)

By Ron Bates

26 ratings 28 reviews 18 followers

Interest Level	Reading Level	Reading A-Z	ATOS	Word Count
Grades 4 - 8	Grade 5	n/a	4.8	67792

Some Friends Are Just Worth Making

For Howard Boward, science genius, making friends in middle school is hard. The other kids have more fun creatively expanding Howard’s name than actually hanging out, as in How-weird or How-Lame. . So, why not actually make a friend? A little wonder putty, some DNA, a few accidentally spilled chemicals and―boom!―instant friend. Monster friend, that is. Franklin ends up being cool in middle school, and he helps Howard climb the uber-popular ladder, becoming How-Cool. But the new fame and friendship isn’t exactly everything Howard hoped. Turns out real friendship might not be so simple, even when you create your own friends from scratch.

Publisher: Zonderkidz

ISBN-13: 9780310736073

ISBN-10: 0310736072

Published on 7/28/2013

Binding: Hardcover

Number of pages: 352

Book Reviews (29)

ocelot

11 years ago

Howard Boward is a student that wants to make friends. But instead of having friends, he has enemies. He uses a mixture to make a friend- making robot, but it's not as easy as it seems. Along the way he learns what it takes to get a true friend.

ninjaldb

11 years ago

this is about 7th grade genius Howard Boward. He doesn't have any friends so he makes friends. Franklin, the new monster he created is great, but what will he do to keep his secret safe?

ruff8

11 years ago

This book is mostly about a thirteen year old boy who is not so popular. Until he creates himself a friend/monster out of DNA, silly putty, and a little bit of orange fur. He then soon rises to be almost uber-popular with the help of his new friend/monster Franklin.