All that Larkin Pace wants is a new camcorder, so he can become the next great filmmaker. But he’s too young for a real job, his parents won’t give him money, his older sister exists just to make him miserable, and his arch-enemy Dalton Cooke is trying to steal his girlfriend, who might just not …read more…
Posts tagged with: verisimilitude
The Accidental Genius of Weasel High by Rick Detorie
Published on: 29 October 2011 by Ken
Categorized under: Book Review, Graphic Novel/Story, Intermediate Literature, Publishing Issues, Writing Issues, YA Literature • Tagged with: blog, diary, hidden adult, journal, metafiction, reluctanct readers, struggling readers, verisimilitude
Hank Zipzer Revisited: A Tale of Two Tails by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver
A while back, I wrote a less than favorable review of Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver’s first book in the Hank Zipzer series, Niagara Falls, or Does It? I have since learned that they have recently published the seventeenth novel in the series, A Brand New Me! (a title which is as off-putting as I …read more…
Published on: 4 August 2010 by Ken
Categorized under: Book Review, Books for Guys, Contemporary Fiction, Disabled, Early Literature, Intermediate Literature, Multicultural Literature, Publishing Issues, Teaching Issues • Tagged with: celebrity author, dyslexia, fathers, Hank Zipzer, Henry Winkler, Lin Oliver, metaphor, realism, simile, verisimilitude, voice, writing