This blog is intended for fellow librarians and adults looking for books for young adults. As a result, recommendations for age levels will be included with general thoughts on the novels.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
"I am a genius of unspeakable evil...", by Josh Lieb (YA fiction)
"I am a genius of unspeakable evil and I want to be your class president" is not appropriate for school libraries, in my opinion. Granted, I didn't get further than 20-25 pages into the book, so things might have turned around. However, during those 20-25 pages, all the 7th grade protagonist did was complain about his life and mock people. Not seeing any redeeming qualities in the character, I promptly put the book down and moved on to one more interesting.
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