Making Up Megaboy

Walter, Virginia

ISBN 10: 0385326866 / ISBN 13: 9780385326865

Published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Up Megaboy
• Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385326866
• ISBN 13: 9780385326865
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Roeckelein, Katrina
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Despite the fact that those in the community find it impossible that he could be the one to have shot the old man, Robbie Jones knows differently because he knows what really happened. Reprint.

Reviews

Robbie Jones, 13 years old and a loner, takes his father's handgun, and kills an elderly store owner. This slim volume records the varied responses of family, community members, and classmates. Robbie, obsessed with his Megaboy drawings, could be the boy next door. Except for an implied psychosis, no clear motive for his violence is evident, leaving the reader appropriately unsettled. The unusual book design contributes to the emotional content of a book that is sure to spark debate.
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The story of a 13-year-old boy who shoots a Korean liquor store owner is filtered through 18 brief first-person perspectives. "This book asks readers to piece together their own interpretation of the events, and it will hold them breathless long past the last page," said PW in a starred review. Ages 11-up. (Sept.)
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