The Homework Machine (2006) (edit title/settings)

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• Brenton Damagatchi: A geek in the beginning but a total genius throughout the whole story. He created the homework machine, or Belch.
• Sam "Snikwad" Dawkins: The class clown who's called Snikwad. (his last name backwards) Not the kind of person who is a champion at chess.
• Judy Douglas: Straight A student and one of the few African American children living in the area. She's also a goody-two-shoes.
• Kelsey Donnelly: Pink-haired, belly button-pierced, and fiesty member of the D-Squad. Her dad was run over by a snowmobile and was killed when she was 6. She saw it.
• Ms. Rasmussen: The D-Squad's Fifth Grade teacher. She is very young.
• Milner: A creeper who keeps sending the D-squad e-mails.
• Ronnie Teotwawki: Add a description of this character.
• Jessica

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• “I showed my graph to Snik. He laughed and said, "If you ask me, you're still a dork, dork, dork, dork, dork, dork, dork, dork, dork, dork, dork, dork, dork, dork, dork, dork, dork, dork, dork, dork, dork, dork, dork, dork, dork, dork, dork." I believe that will change the results of my experiment.”

  Brenton Damagatchi

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• Abraham Lincoln once said “That is cool”? It’s true. I looked it up. He said it in his famous Cooper Union speech. Google it if you don’t believe me.

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• Suddenly I realized that for all his dorkiness, Brenton was the kind of kid I really want to hang out with.

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• That was the first time I ever had a homework assignment that was cool.

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• If everybody was cool, everybody would be the same. Nobody would be cooler than anyone else. There would be nobody to make fun of. So I suppose I serve a purpose, in a weird way.

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• It’s interesting how things happen sometimes. If I line up ten dominoes and I push over the first one, the others will fall one by one. But if I leave the first one alone, the other dominoes remain standing. Life is like that. The way your life plays out depends on which dominoes you choose to push over and which ones you leave alone. In this case, we pushed over the wrong domino.

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• straight A’s and I’m in the G&T program. That’s gifted and talented.

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• Judy: stuck-up. Kelsey: a loser. Brenton: mutant dork from another planet. I was the only cool one.

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• to print the answers in a typeface that looked like my own handwriting.

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• I feel that a person can change himself or herself no more than a giraffe can decide it doesn’t like having a long neck. It would be easy enough to buy the latest clothes and watch the hot new TV shows and surround myself with cool things.

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• But I decided that Brenton was probably the coolest kid I ever met. And that includes me. Coolness doesn’t come from having cool stuff or hanging with cool people. It’s not cool to try to be cool. It’s cool to not try to be cool. Brenton just does his own thing. He’s one of these guys who is so uncool that he’s cool. You know what I mean? You reach a point where you cross the line into coolness.

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• Grand Canyon, Arizona
• America

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Followed by Return of the Homework Machine.

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1. Dan Gutman (Author)

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