Overview
Reinventing yourself takes humor, heart, and a TON of footnotes! Max is a good kid--but you wouldn't know that if you met him at the boring family camp his parents dragged him to over the summer. There, for a few exciting weeks, Max reinvents himself as ""Mad Max"" and gains a bad-boy reputation for being daring, cool, and fearless. But when Max returns home, he finds it's easier to be fearless with strangers than it is among friends, and he is not particularly proud of the way his behavior over the summer hurt people. Can he find a way to merge his adventurous alter ego with his true identity as a good guy? Peppered with humorous handwritten footnotes and doodles throughout, Anyway* perfectly captures the viewpoint of a young teen doing his best to find his place in the world--and an ideal balance between wise guy and wimp.
Full Product Details
Author: Arthur Salm
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Edition: Reprint ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 13.20cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 19.50cm
Weight: 0.136kg
ISBN: 9781442429314
ISBN 10: 1442429313
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 07 May 2013
Recommended Age: From 8 to 12 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
...Salm has penned a deeply innovative tale that takes risks with the genre and succeeds wildly.
...Salm has penned a deeply innovative tale that takes risks with the genre and succeeds wildly. Conveys with keen perception the revelations that persona can be a choice and that people tend to take us as we offer ourselves; it's also sympathetically realistic about the need to calibrate that choice a little in the face of its consequences...The affable yet thoughtful treatment of shifting adolescent identity will ring true with kids thinking about changing their own reps, and it'll gratify readers that the nice guy definitely doesn't finish last. -- BCCB Everything about this book screams summer fun. -- The Washington Post In Max, Salm has created a likable everykid who's shy and caring, but who also possesses flashes of petulance, goofiness, self-doubt, and--yes--questionable decision making that make him very real. The 138 footnotes, set in a font that resembles hand-lettering, are smoothly integrated into the story and contribute to its easygoing, memoirlike pace. -- Publishers Weekly
In Max, Salm has created a likable everykid who's shy and caring, but who also possesses flashes of petulance, goofiness, self-doubt, and--yes--questionable decision making that make him very real. The 138 footnotes, set in a font that resembles hand-lettering, are smoothly integrated into the story and contribute to its easygoing, memoirlike pace. -- Publishers Weekly Conveys with keen perception the revelations that persona can be a choice and that people tend to take us as we offer ourselves; it's also sympathetically realistic about the need to calibrate that choice a little in the face of its consequences...The affable yet thoughtful treatment of shifting adolescent identity will ring true with kids thinking about changing their own reps, and it'll gratify readers that the nice guy definitely doesn't finish last. -- BCCB Everything about this book screams summer fun. -- The Washington Post ...Salm has penned a deeply innovative tale that takes risks with the genre and succeeds wildly.
Everything about this book screams summer fun. -- The Washington Post
Author Information
Arthur Salm is a former newspaper columnist for the San Diego Union Tribune who now writes books full time.
