Sonnenblick absolutely nails the 8th-grade boy voice here. Had I know what this was about, I never would have picked it up (I hate cancer books) but I'm glad I did. It was well-done, sensitively done, and felt entirely true. Too true, in places. There was a lot of humor to balance out the pathos an...
Wonderful coming-of-age book about Junior High School student Hollis Hoodhood. Holling feels that his English teacher hates him because she makes him stay after school to read Shakespeare and diagram complex sentences. Loved this story.
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