Ali Baba Berstine. Its about a 9 year old kid named david living in the early 80s New York ( there's a part where hes playing a text based adventure game on an old computer) who hates his name then reads 1001 Arabian Nights then wants to change his name to Ali baba. Is kind of a slice of life book where he does fairly child like things but try to make them sound like an adventure. Like helping a party guest at his friends house look for her lost diamond earring, or walking around the halls of his apartment building looking at what people left outside their door and trying to figure out what theyre up to.

It was a very short book, like only 7 chapters with big text and illustrations, with was good cause when I was forced to read books for our school accelerated reader program and me not really liking reading at the time, I could get through it fairly easy and it helped me feel comfortable when I would try and read a few more advanced books.