Depends on the teacher, but the movie trick usually doesn't work. The teacher usually asks questions about the book that's different from the movie, to catch people. If you don't have time to read it, though, A movie's better than nothing at all! =-) Another trick is to find books on tape, if you can. usually they're condensed, so it doesn't take as long. Another trick is to go to an online site, where they have book reports, and just read a few of those. Heh, heh, of course, I never used any of these underhanded tactics. No way, I'm WAY too lazy for that; I just tried to BS my way through book reports or tests or whatever. =-) It usually ended up working, too; I'm still not surte how I managed to do that. =-)