I have been reading a book called Matilda by Roald Dahl. In the book Matilda (the main character) has very mean parents and her father is a crook. He takes old used cars fills the engines with sawdust which makes them run well for a while gives them a new coat of paint and runs down the dial of how many miles it has driven so it looks new. Matilda is very smart, she toughed herself to read and write which led up to her being very smart. Her teacher, Miss. Honey noticed it and tried to move her up to a heir grade with the Head mistresses permission BUT the head mistress(Ms.Trunchbull) heard lies from her father that she was a brat. Later in the book The Trunchbull,(thats what they call her) came in. They soon they found out the Trunchbull was a wicked person. She was very strong because she won the gold meddle in throwing the hammer in the olympics. (Not really) She HATED children. she had this giant cubed filled with glass shards and nails in it so you had to stand perfectly straight. She threw children out the window. Those were the most common punishments. If you want to know what the rest of the story is about read it yourself. Leave me a comment about it.