![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Ilene CooperĬopyright © American Library Association. Because the description of the hurricane is so carefully crafted, it never seems a canned event consequently, George's turnaround is believable. And because George is such an individual, other characters seem real juxtaposed against him. The bullies are of a piece, but George's teacher-with whom he unexpectedly bonds and with whom he shares more than a few characteristics-is exceptionally multilayered. Evangelista avoids pitfalls throughout the characters could easily have been stereotypes, and the hurricane a deus ex machina. It takes a hurricane for him to understand who he is, why people loathe him, and what to do about it. George determines to fight back, but he has few resources. Their kindness is a ruse to make George responsible for a joke that infuriates one of the teacher-chaperones. Do the Bruise Brothers want to be his friends? Well, no. Yet at first Worm (George's nickname) seems to have turned lucky. When his father (the school principal) insists that he go on the eighth-grade camping trip, George worries that his tormenters, known collectively as the Bruise Brothers, will corner him, and he'll have only his best friend, Anita, to protect him. It's hard to write a successful book with an unlikable protagonist (especially when it is narrated in his voice), but that's what first-time author Evangelista has done. Clark-a gifted student, and well aware of it. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 10-14) A spoiled brainiac learns to appreciate others in this mildly entertaining but not particularly convincing first effort. This witty novel provides a different perspective on bullying and the battle of brains versus brawn. Suddenly thrown into a crash course on human nature, without his father to protect him, the most intellectually gifted kid in the eighth-grade might actually learn something before the end of the trip. But his father isn't going on the eighth grade science field trip, and George has a feeling it's going to be open season on dorks. Only the fact that George's father is the school principal has saved him in the past. Until the Bruise Brothers, the intellectually challenged members of the school football team, decide they want George to pass a test of their own design. Most of his classmates avoid him―if he's lucky. But socially, George is at the bottom of the curve. His parents worship him, and his teachers adore him. ![]() Mentally, he's light-years ahead of his classmates.
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