BAD BOY

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Summary: Realistically Exciting
Review: Bad Boy is a great book for kids or teens to read because it deals with things that the youth would relate to. Two best friends A.J. and Tully both made the Tripple A Cyclone hockey team, that they have wanted to be on for years. They have both grown up pretty violent and rough. Everything was starting to come together when A.J. found out that someone he nows is gay. This is a very modern book. If you like hokey and like to read very realistic books, I know this will be one of your favorits.

Rating:
Summary: Award-winning and powerful
Review: This book is the winner of eight awards - including those from the American Library Association, the Canadian Library Association and Canada's most prestigious award, the Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. And it's obvious why.

The Canadian Children's Book Centre says, "Wieler's characters are well rounded and real. Even minor figures like Coach Landau are fully alive on the page. Main characters particularly change and grow, their reactions and development interesting and plausible. At the close of Bad Boy the reader knows that A.J., Tully and Summer will continue to grow not only in relation to one another but in their own right as well. .. (Wieler) has created one of the best young adult novels to be written by a Canadian, a book which is gripping and thoughtful and moving. Bad Boy is controversial...but adolescent readers who are kept from it will be deprived of one of the most important reading experiences of this or any other year"

This is a powerful book, and highly recommended. Both my teenagers loved it - one son and one daughter -- and couldn't put it down. Diana Wieler has become a real favourite in our house.

Rating:
Summary: Bad Boy
Review: this book was good but it had a few down sides to but when he found out that his best friend was gayhe was really down in the dumps. but he was happy that he made the team that really wanted to play for. the book was over all good. this book also coght my eye because i am some what a bad boy some times.