King of the Screwups
Liam Geller is Mr. Popularity. Everybody loves him. He excels at sports; he knows exactly what clothes to wear; he always ends up with the most beautiful girls in school. But he's got an uncanny ability to screw up in the very ways that tick off his father the most.When Liam finally kicked out of...
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Liam Geller is Mr. Popularity. Everybody loves him. He excels at sports; he knows exactly what clothes to wear; he always ends up with the most beautiful girls in school. But he's got an uncanny ability to screw up in the very ways that tick off his father the most.When Liam finally kicked out of the house, his father's brother takes him in. What could a teenage chick magnet possibly have in common with his gay, glam rocker, DJ uncle who lives in a trailer in upstate New York? A lot more than you'd think. And when Liam attempts to make himself over as a nerd in a desperate attempt to impress his father, it's his "aunt" Pete and the guys in his band who convince Liam there's much more to him than his father will ever see.
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780152062583
Publish date: 06-04-2009
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Edition language: English
Liam always seems to be screwing things up, but when his businessman father catches him making out with a girl on the desk in his office, he finally gets kicked out of the house. Instead of going to his uptight grandparents in Nevada, however, Liam's mother (who used to be a famous runway model, and...
I really liked this book a lot. I was instantly drawn into Liam's life. I thought he was an interesting character and I liked him. My only problem was that in the book he clearly has a bad relationship with his father, which is a huge part of the story. The end of the book kind of fell flat for ...
This was an enjoyable read, but it certainly didn't get deep into my skin like FAT KID. A little too much explaining of psychology, if you know what I mean. I did like Aunt Pete and his friends--their friendships felt real to me. Darleen felt like an add-on/mouthpiece.
When I first started reading about the character Liam, he got on my nerves. He just seemed like a whiny, poor little rich kid. But that changed as I read on and I began to understand him.As the blurb above says, Liam was kicked out of his own home by his father when his father caught him with a gi...
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