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Exploits of a Reluctant (But Extremely Goodlooking) Hero
By Fergus, Maureen
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-1-55453-024-3 978-1-55453-025-0
- Publisher
- KCP Kids
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2007
Gr 8-10 Fergus captures perfectly the voice of the unnamed 13-year-old narrator who is resolutely selfish and self-serving, prurient and rude, sarcastic and frequently indignant. With a penchant for girlie magazines and fried chicken, he is yearning for puberty and looking forward to Sex Ed class, since his father has not been much help in advising him. He expects the family business, House of Toilets, will someday bring him a fortune. His mother gives him a tape recorder in the hope that it will help him st...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2007
Like Adrian Mole, only exponentially more obnoxious, Fergus's unnamed, self-centered thirteen-year-old narrator obliviously plays the buffoon in his own audio diary. He's been directed by a guidance counselor to use a journal as a warehouse for his many inappropriate and insensitive observations, and his wickedly funny tape-recorded musings brim with misplaced bravado, as when he recounts puzzlement at failing to get on the good side of a teacher at his new scho...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2007
Fergus's unnamed self-centered thirteen-year-old narrator obliviously plays the buffoon in his own audio diary. His wickedly funny t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
