Anyway*
*A Story About Me with 138 Footnotes, 27 Exaggerations, and 1 Plate of Spaghetti
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Is self-invention truly possible? Twelve-year-old Max gives it a go in Salm's sweetly comic debut novel. Everyone knows Max as a good kid who flies under the radar and tries to avoid the class bully. But when he's forced to take a summer vacation at a family camp with his parents, Max trots out an edgy new persona he's sure will impress the other camp kids especially a beautiful girl. As cool, bold "Mad Max," he dons a headband and shades while mastering hanging out at the pool. Soon he's leading his cohorts in an unfortunate prank and getting caught up in behavior that makes him wonder if "Mad Max" is who he really wants to be. 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. Ages 8 12.
