Awards

• Short-listed for Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award (Grades 6-8) 2015
• Winner of San Diego Book Awards (Children's Fiction) 2013

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 away 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.

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9781442429307

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Reviews

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

...Salm has penned a deeply innovative tale that takes risks with the genre and succeeds wildly. 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 Everything about this book screams summer fun. --The Washington Post 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 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

Author Information

Arthur Salm is a former newspaper columnist for the San Diego Union Tribune who now writes books full time.

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