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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This was a really good book with a great message. It truly makes you think about how much you may have hurt other people and evaluate the impact of your words. However, it's not preachy, and at times can even be funny. I strongly recoomend this book for everybody, especailly teenagers.
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Summary: Amazing Novel for All Ages
Review: Twelve-year-old Bobby Goodspeed, is not only a tie salesman at a department store, Awkworth & Ames, but is also an overweight seventh grader whom gets teased at school every single day. As do his closest friends, Addie Carle, a girl who is not only a genius, but is also extremely tall. Joe Bunch, a boy who just happens to be gay. And Skeezie Tookis, a boy who's Father ran out on his family, and is constantly called a troublemaker. Together they make the Group of Five (even though they are short one person), and together they decide to take over Paintbrush Falls Middle School, by running for Student Council, to stop name-calling once and for all.James Howe obviously has a tremendous amount of insight into how children/teens react to being called names, and harassed daily at school. The things that happen to all of the characters, Addie, Bobby, Joe, and Skeezie, are typical things that happen everyday in all American schools, and things that every child/teen could easily relate to. Yes, in today's society doing what the Group of Five did would probably get the average student beaten up, or put them at risk of being a bigger target for bullies, but it was still nice to see the underdogs come forward for once, and stand up for themselves, which is a very hard thing to do. This was an amazing book that all adolescents should have a copy of, as it is almost a Bible to all those who are bullied, or have been bullied in the past. Erika Sorocco
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Summary: The Misfits unabridged audio book
Review: Want your middle-schoolers to listen with rapt attention? This audio version of THE MISFITS by Full Cast Audio is fabulous. The characters, read by talented young actors, leap to audio life from page one until the very end. There is even an interview with the author. My students are completely absorbed!
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Summary: The Misfits unabridged audio book
Review: Want your middle-schoolers to listen with rapt attention? This audio version of THE MISFITS by Full Cast Audio is fabulous. The characters, read by talented young actors, leap to audio life from page one until the very end. There is even an interview with the author. My students are completed absorbed!
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Summary: growing up--made easy
Review: What a wonderful book James Howe has written! It will make you laugh, it will make you cry;hopefully it will make all of us realize how hurtful name calling can be. When the misfits of a middle school decide to fight for the right not be ridiculed for who they are, the readers are the winners. The fat kid, the smart kid, the hoodlum and the gay kid establish the "No-name Club" in a bid for presidency of the student body.Whether they win or not is immaterial, the attitudes they challenge in the process is the essence of the story.
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Summary: A wonderful book targeted at middle school students
Review: Written for middle-school age students,(but well worth reading by anyone age 10 and up) this book was the inspiration for the No Name Calling Week project. A terrific book of how kids who "don't fit in" change attitudes about name calling.
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Summary: A lifesaving book
Review: Yes, I am one of the misfits! Have been all my life. I first read this book in 7th grade. It's absolutely essential for surviving middle-school, and the messages stay with the reader into high school. One of the most excellent books I have ever read. I read it aloud to my 8-year-old sister, and she loved it. 2 years later, before entering 6th grade, she's rereading it on her own and continues to adore it. If you have ever been called a name, or have ever called anyone a name, read The Misfits.
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