This entertaining adaptation captures the spirit of the book's quirky main character's quest to break ridiculous rules and carry on after personal tragedy. But the movie also encourages honesty and communication between families and siblings and the importance of teachers who focus on students rather than test scores.

There's also some light romance (including kissing and reference to a 'hot' stepmom). Expect a bunch of insults and almost-swear words like 'what the.,' 'what rhymes with suck,' and 'frickin',' as well as 'pissed off,' 'buttwipe,' 'doofus,' 'stupid,' 'crap,' and more. While there's no violence, several pratfalls are played for laughs, and there are sad discussions about a dead family member. Little kids might be upset by that, but tweens and young teens will realize that he's doing it for a valid reason: questioning rules just for the sake of having rules.

The story revolves around a rebellious middle schooler who breaks lots of school rules. Parents need to know that Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life is a comedy based on the best-selling book by James Patterson. The end of the book is as follows: Rafe goes to Airbrook, an art school just for him.Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. The teacher then suggests that Rafe goes to a special art school called Airbrook. One of the teachers looks inside of the journal and sees the drawings. But when they get there, Rafe and Miller end up getting into a fight which ever leads to Rafe getting expelled. Near the end of the book, Rafe has to go in with his mother to talk to the principal about one of the rules he broke. Miller refused to give Rafe his journal back unless he pays $1 per page. Miller, also known as Miller the Killer, the school bully, stole Rafe's journal that had drawings and Operation R.A.F.E inside. and encourages him to work on his schoolwork. He finds consolation in Jeanne Galletta, who is skeptical of Operation R.A.F.E. He has a verbally abusive stepfather-to-be named Carl (aka Bear), who 'watches' over him when his mother is not home. His mother constantly works double shifts at a Swifty's Diner and barely gets to see Rafe and his sister Georgia. Rafe is bored at Hills Village Middle School with sixth grade at first, but he and his friend Leonardo the Silent invent 'Operation R.A.F.E.' (stands for 'rules aren't for everyone'), a challenge to break every rule in his middle school handbook.

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson

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