Goldblatt, Mark Finding
the Worm, 344 pgs. Random House Children’s Books, 2015. $16.99.
Language: G (1 swear, hell); Mature Content: PG; Violence PG.
Language: G (1 swear, hell); Mature Content: PG; Violence PG.
Julian Twerski is a 7th grader in the fast track
at McMaster’s Junior High during the 1969-1970 school year. Twerski has a lot going on as he tries to
prepare for his bar mitzvah, deals with a school bully, takes on a school
assigned essay for a crime he didn’t commit, and deals with the illness of his
friend. Julian Twerski has some great
friends in the Thirty-Fourth Avenue gang, a group of kids hailing from the same
zip code, except that one of their number, Quentin, is dealing with a brain
tumor.
Goldblatt takes some difficult
topics and makes them engaging and accessible.
This book was delightfully written.
Finding the Worm is totally
readable without having read Twerp,
which comes first.
MS-ESSENTIAL.
Michelle in the Middle
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