Pub Date: January 6, 2011
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: 14 to UP
Physical Info: 1.42" H x 8.19" L x 5.59" W ( 1.03 lbs) 544 pages
BISAC Categories:
Young Adult Fiction | Boys and Men | Social Themes | Drugs Alcohol Substance Abuse
Description: For years, Karl has been part of the Madman Underground--kids forced to attend group therapy during school hours. Karl decides that for his senior year, he is going to get out of the group for good. He is going to act--and be--Normal. But Normal, of course, is relative. A Printz Honor Book.
Review Quotes: "Rarely will you read something so lovingly vulgar, so fiercely warmhearted, and so exuberantly expansive that even its longwindedness becomes part of its rogue charm. . . . The culmination comes off like a teenage One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Always ambitious, often caustic, and frequently moving."--Booklist, starred review
"So easy and engaging, so sweet and funny, so astonishingly truthful that readers will rip through these 500-plus pages and want more."--School Library Journal, starred review "Darkly comic . . . as troubled, relevant, relatable and hilarious as J.D. Salinger."--Los Angeles Times