The depiction of female characters is mostly two dimensional: his mother is either crying or shrill, Claudia’s a younger take on Election’s Tracy Flick, and the fact that the girl who reveals Jeremy’s exploits does so because he scorned her romantically is an unpleasant cliché. how to be a guy when you were surrounded by girls all the time?” Unfortunately, when he continues the pranks, even after they’ve hurt people, he meanders into selfish jerk territory. Jeremy’s initially a pretty sympathetic guy-most kids know what it feels like to be the odd man out, and he’s got insightful notions about how that outsider status can play a large part in shaping one’s identity: “How do you figure out. The first few stunts go off without a hitch, but as the pranks get increasingly bigger, so do the consequences: the school roof caves in, a girl nearly dies from an asthma attack, and Jeremy almost gets his older sister kicked off the volleyball team that’s her only hope for a college scholarship. He and his best pal Claudia cook up a plan of pranks they hope will get Jeremy expelled with minimal damage to his permanent record.
Edith’s, and now he is the last boy standing. Seventh-grader Jeremy, however, has no shot at leaving because his single mom is the secretary at St. Edith’s Academy, the boys began transferring to other schools in droves. Ages 8 12.When girls were introduced to the all-male St. Jeremy's self-deprecating, sardonic humor and Claudia's ample self-confidence generate some authentically funny episodes as Malone's story addresses individuality, conformity, and finding friendship. Jeremy's doubts about his scheme magnify when his innocent sister is implicated in a prank, and his mother learns the truth. He enlists the aid of his friend, Claudia, a headstrong aspiring filmmaker, who announces a one-word strategy: "Pranks." Harmless shenanigans (such as assembling stolen garden gnomes at the school's entrance) turn dangerous when Jeremy and Claudia tamper with doorknobs, and a classmate has an asthma attack while locked in the bathroom. Malone creates a charmingly hapless protagonist in Jeremy, who, feeling outnumbered, decides that he'll attempt to get expelled. Since his single mother is a school employee and he attends free of charge, it isn't an option. After seventh grader Jeremy Miner's Massachusetts private school reverts to enrolling girls only, every boy at St. Malone's debut is a sweet, candid novel about fitting in, messing up, and making amends.
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