Trouble According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney

This book shows how much trouble a tiny hamster can cause. Now, Humphrey isn’t any ordinary hamster. He is as smart as they come. This hamster can write, read, and knows how to open his cage from the inside! Now that’s impressive. However nobody except Og the frog knows he can do this until now. Humphrey lives in a classroom led by Mrs. Brisbane. Every week a lucky student who has brought a signed permission slip in gets to take Humphrey home. This week Pay-Attention-AArt Patel gets to take Humphrey home. As mentioned earlier Humphrey isn’t any ordinary hamster, and when he goes home with a student he tries to fix there problem. It’s very clever if you ask me. But the story really begins when Humphrey is taken home to the Paynes. Now the Paynes aren’t the most rich people in the world. In fact a key detail is that the father of the Paynes family needs a job. Now this is where one of his many troubles start, leaving the Paynes. You see after leaving the Paynes the children of the Paynes got very sick. We all know who they blame now, Humphrey. So now because of the complaints Humphrey isn’t allowed in the classroom. But still there's more trouble that happened earlier. Humphrey got his favorite student, Miranda Golden, in trouble. This happened because Humphrey got caught outside his cage. To find out what happens read Trouble According to Humphrey.  ~Review by LR