Reviews to a Gordon Korman book....
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conuly0 stars written by an 11-year-old
I was forced to read this book over the summer for school. I started the first chapter and I loved it. Then I continued reading and the book got worse and worse as I went on. The main character, Cameron Boxer, disgusted me. He is a bad influence and is sneaky. In the beginning of the book he almost set his house on fire due to his nonstop video game playing. Then his parents threaten to take his video games away unless Cameron joins an activity, and Cameron starts a fake club. Do you really want to let your children read about such irresponsibility?. Don't waste your time!!!!!!!!!! This book took me months to read because It was so bad I couldn't even stand to read it. I would not let your child read this horrible book. Some great books I would suggest reading are: Out of My Mind, Everything Everything, Running Dream, The War That Saved My Life, The War I Finally Won, and Refugee.
Me: JFC, kid, you are eleven. Lighten up! And maybe stop reading all those Newberys, they're clearly doing something to you.
I feel bad snarking at a kid but... that kid really needs to loosen up a little.
I was forced to read this book over the summer for school. I started the first chapter and I loved it. Then I continued reading and the book got worse and worse as I went on. The main character, Cameron Boxer, disgusted me. He is a bad influence and is sneaky. In the beginning of the book he almost set his house on fire due to his nonstop video game playing. Then his parents threaten to take his video games away unless Cameron joins an activity, and Cameron starts a fake club. Do you really want to let your children read about such irresponsibility?. Don't waste your time!!!!!!!!!! This book took me months to read because It was so bad I couldn't even stand to read it. I would not let your child read this horrible book. Some great books I would suggest reading are: Out of My Mind, Everything Everything, Running Dream, The War That Saved My Life, The War I Finally Won, and Refugee.
Me: JFC, kid, you are eleven. Lighten up! And maybe stop reading all those Newberys, they're clearly doing something to you.
I feel bad snarking at a kid but... that kid really needs to loosen up a little.
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Date: 2019-06-24 02:53 am (UTC)Then I shall say no more about it!
[Except to say that I did like the scene where the seemingly perfect upper-class gentleman with all his papers in order - "Officer, his pant cuffs are wet and filled with sand" - was arrested as a spy. I read a coming-of-age book called Homefront that did the same thing in Florida; the boy and girl found a cache of supplies for Nazi saboteurs buried on the beach, apparently a true story.]