Kids: The Next Great Paulie Fink
The Next Great Paulie Fink
By: Ali Benjamin
By: Ali Benjamin
Review By: Dilan Mehta
Caitlyn Breen, who has just made the uncomfortable move with her mom to Vermont, leaving behind her friends, discovers that her new school, The Mitchel School, isn't an actual school. It's an old dead guy's house. And there are only a few teachers. AND they do weird things like feed goats. Caitlyn's classmates each have unique personalities, one's really nice and obsessed with a reality TV show, one loves soccer, and one loves facts, and is always nervous.
When Caitlyn shows up to school, things are very different for her. The kids don't act like how normal kids act. Caitlyn thinks there are a set of rules. And these rules are basic, and everyone is born knowing them, of what to do and what not to do. But when she learns about a legendary troublemaker named Paulie Fink, who has suddenly disappeared, and who no one can't stop talking about, Caitlyn has to wonder what's normal.
She finds herself running a reality show type contest of who can fill Paulie's shoes, and everything goes out of control.
Listening to her teacher's philosophical lessons about the ancient Greeks and their way of doing things, helping a kindergartener she calls Fuzzy, and finding the next great Paulie Fink makes Caitlin change her opinions about how to act.
And when the big soccer game against Devilinshire, the rich archenemies of the Mitchell school comes around, there is a shocking surprise, and things get heated.
Made up of interviews, recordings, and emails, this book was different from what I usually read, and was actually really good. I would recommend it if you are looking for something to read.
Caitlyn Breen, who has just made the uncomfortable move with her mom to Vermont, leaving behind her friends, discovers that her new school, The Mitchel School, isn't an actual school. It's an old dead guy's house. And there are only a few teachers. AND they do weird things like feed goats. Caitlyn's classmates each have unique personalities, one's really nice and obsessed with a reality TV show, one loves soccer, and one loves facts, and is always nervous.
When Caitlyn shows up to school, things are very different for her. The kids don't act like how normal kids act. Caitlyn thinks there are a set of rules. And these rules are basic, and everyone is born knowing them, of what to do and what not to do. But when she learns about a legendary troublemaker named Paulie Fink, who has suddenly disappeared, and who no one can't stop talking about, Caitlyn has to wonder what's normal.
She finds herself running a reality show type contest of who can fill Paulie's shoes, and everything goes out of control.
Listening to her teacher's philosophical lessons about the ancient Greeks and their way of doing things, helping a kindergartener she calls Fuzzy, and finding the next great Paulie Fink makes Caitlin change her opinions about how to act.
And when the big soccer game against Devilinshire, the rich archenemies of the Mitchell school comes around, there is a shocking surprise, and things get heated.
Made up of interviews, recordings, and emails, this book was different from what I usually read, and was actually really good. I would recommend it if you are looking for something to read.
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