Tales of the Madman Underground Tales of the Madman Underground

Tales of the Madman Underground

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Publisher Description

Wednesday, September 5, 1973: The first day of Karl Shoemaker's senior year in stifling Lightsburg, Ohio. For years, Karl's been part of what he calls "the Madman Underground" - a group of kids forced (for no apparent reason) to attend group therapy during school hours. Karl has decided that senior year is going to be different. He is going to get out of the Madman Underground for good. He is going to act - and be - Normal. But Normal, of course, is relative. Karl has five after-school jobs, one dead father, one seriously unhinged drunk mother . . . and a huge attitude. Welcome to a gritty, uncensored rollercoaster ride, narrated by the singular Karl Shoemaker.

GENRE
Young Adult
RELEASED
2009
June 25
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
544
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Young Readers Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
1.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Klinkwink ,

Tales of the madman underground

The first person voice of Karl shoemaker is so funny as he struggles so courageously to live one day at a time with all the odds stacked against him. What compels me to visit him again and again is his hilarious perception of the adults around him and how clueless he is about how many of them love and respect him. Flawed as they are themselves like his peers in the Madman
Underground, they just want to help. My highest praise always goes to books with characters so dear to me that I must read and reread them just so I can spend time in their company.

mofo123 ,

Tales of a MAdman Underground

Simply awesome

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