Ok, just finished Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute by Jarrett Krosoczka. It had some very funny moments, great "spy gadgets" disguised as lunch lady equipment, including "chicken nugget bombs" and a "spatu-copter". It also developed consistent character traits. Of the 3 kids who suspect that the lunch lady has a secret life, one is a geek/wimp, another has low self-confidence, and the third is a "tough girl". There's the typical bully who is used to show the progress the geek/wimp has made over the course of the story. There's also 2 other plot lines (the kids are simply following the lunch lady). The lunch lady and her side kick "Betty" (kind of functions like Albert from Batman) are following a suspicious new substitute named Mr. Pasteur, who is part of a master plan by the science teacher to.... (I won't give it away). I think this would be a great story for the 4th graders in my guided reading group to read. They'd be able to follow the multiple plot lines, get the inside jokes/winks, and tackle the slightly difficult vocabulary. I'm not sure about this book for 3rd graders...might be too hard. Amazon does say it's grade 2 and up. The best part about it is that there are tons of books in the series.
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