Swimnoid
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- Joined
- May 28, 2003
I am terrible at posting my finished books so my resolution will be to keep up better this year.
1. Huge by James W Fuerst
From Goodreads: Sure, his IQ is off the charts, but that doesn’t help much when you’re growing up in the 1980s in a dreary New Jersey town where your bad reputation precedes you, the public school system’s written you off as a lost cause, and even your own family seems out to get you.
But it’s not all bad. Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett have taught Huge everything he needs to know about being a hard-boiled detective . . . and he’s just been hired to solve his first case.
What he doesn’t realize is that his search for the truth will change everything for him.
This is a YA novel which is more about growing up than being a detective. This kid has problems and the books lays them all out so it's not a happy, cheery kids book. But I can see how young teens could really relate to it. Worth the read if you like that kind of thing.
1. Huge by James W Fuerst
From Goodreads: Sure, his IQ is off the charts, but that doesn’t help much when you’re growing up in the 1980s in a dreary New Jersey town where your bad reputation precedes you, the public school system’s written you off as a lost cause, and even your own family seems out to get you.
But it’s not all bad. Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett have taught Huge everything he needs to know about being a hard-boiled detective . . . and he’s just been hired to solve his first case.
What he doesn’t realize is that his search for the truth will change everything for him.
This is a YA novel which is more about growing up than being a detective. This kid has problems and the books lays them all out so it's not a happy, cheery kids book. But I can see how young teens could really relate to it. Worth the read if you like that kind of thing.