Choose Moose

Sixth-grader Henry Haddock's personal war with School Board Chairman "Scooter" McDuff starts innocently. Over breakfast one day, Henry complains that his favorite teacher has been laid off in a sudden, sneaky burst of budget cuts. Henry goes to ask the School Board to ask why. Scooter tells Henry to shut up. A week later, Scooter does it again. After that, it's a war of wills!Henry's protest eventually triggers a brawl in the high-school library, a recall petition, a battered TV reporter and the unlikely political career of high-school basketball star "Moose" Fulton, brother of Fantasia, Henry's ferocious sidekick.
The town takes sides. Henry becomes the unlikely leader of the underdog faction-along with Moose and Fantasia, Charlie Mulcahy, Mr. McCloskey and the flamboyant Dexter D. Lee. Henry finds himself pitted versus the School Board, the "Thundering Three Hundred, " the local radio station, the richest man in town, his sister Penelope and a German shepherd named Wagner.