A latest collection of Big Nate strips follows the irrepressible, fortune-cookie-declared genius blazing a haphazard trail through the sixth grade at P.S. 38, where between endless misadventures, marked by complaining observations, he earns straight As and numerous detentions. Original. TV tie-in Big Nate is in a class by himself. This spunky 11-year-old holds the school record in detentions, but that doesn't stop him from dreaming big!