Age group: 10+Type: Realistic fiction
Rating: **** (4 stars)
This book is about a boy called Wallace Wallace (yes, that really is his name). He is a football star, ever since he made the winning play last year. And he always tells the truth, no matter how much trouble he will get into by doing that. His English teacher, Mr. Fogelman, gives the class an assignment to write an essay on Old Shep, My Pal and is expecting everybody to like the book only Wallace hates the book because he is completely and entirely fed up of the dog dying and he writes that in his essay. So, in Mr. Fogelman's eyes, Wallace's essay is unacceptable so he makes Wallace stay after school with the drama club to rewrite the essay. While he is doing this, he has to skip football practice which basically makes almost all the football team people hate him. The school play the drama club is doing is also Old Shep, My Pal and Mr. Fogelman is directing. But he is making it exactly like the book and secretly a lot of the cast members don't like it. So, Wallace begins helping make the play more modern and actually starts to befriend the cast. But there is somebody sabotaging the play, and it isn't Wallace--only everybody thinks it is. Will the show go on??? And what about football???
I liked this book a lot. It was very funny and there is this girl called Rachel Turner who always writes letters to Julia Roberts about her life and things and it is pretty humorous. She is in this story a lot. This book is funny because Wallace helps make the play really crazy and funny, like there is a band called the Dead Mangoes who plays music for the show and somebody drives a moped onstage and a roller-skating butterfly catcher. It alternates viewpoints. Plus this book is exciting because you want to figure out who is ruining the play.
PARENTAL SECTION
Sexual parts: no!!!!
Violence: not really.
Fighting: yes but not THAT much
Kissing/romance: Only romance.
Pregnancy: no
Stealing: yes
Vandalizing: yes
*Really this book has nothing to worry about.
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