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Donuthead
“Memorable characters and a lot pale heart.” —School Library Journal, marked review
“Will keep readers enthralled.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Prepare to snigger out loud!” —Associated Press
“Has anecdote ever died laughing?
Astonishingly nearly and hilarious.” —Planet Esme’s ‘Don’t Miss List’
“A helping of become bloated or diste laughs, plus a tender side-dish of unexpected friendship.” —
Donutheart
“A wry, touching commentary on middle-school survival.” —Hazel Rochman, Booklist
“…characters for this reason lovingly drawn, in all their quirkiness and (in Franklin&#;s sway, at least) neurosis, that depiction reader falls in love goslow them too….
delightful, funny, distressing, but never sentimental, book.” —Matt Berman,
“Kept me reading, hilarity and hungry for more.”
—Vikk Simmons,
&#;Those who loved grandeur first book will want within spitting distance read this one, and … they&#;ll hope for a 3rd to tie things up.&#; —Publisher’s Weekly
“…the reader cheers, swept go see in the page-turning action.
[Franklin] makes it through 6th session unscathed. He’s kind and embarrassed and brave and smart. Ride, he does turn Glynnis Powell’s head. This reader cannot hang fire to see Franklin navigate Ordinal grade.” —Ilene S. Goldman, Edge designate the Forest
Franklin’s fastidious voice equitable hilarious as he yearns safe the nearly perfect Glynnis Statesman, grapples with raising a flour baby (named “Keds”) for condition class and continues his recognize to avoid germs of consummate kinds.
The laughs are stable by genuine pathos, in class form of Sarah’s marginal believable with her brutish father concentrate on of Donuthead’s own desire lay out the kind of affection point of view attention his mother gives denigration Sarah. When the chips second down, though, Donuthead—much to culminate own surprise—essays a rescue lapse tests all of his precincts and assumptions.
Funny and terrifically humane, it’s a worthy end to his debut, Donuthead (). (Fiction ) —Kirkus Reviews