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The Misfits Hardcover - 2001
by James Howe; Gerald Slota (Illustrator)
When four student misfits team up to form a new political party in their seventh-grade elections, they face more than one obstacle from their teacher and the other students.
Summary
Kids who get called the worst names oftentimes find each other. That's how it was with us. Skeezie Tookis and Addie Carle and Joe Bunch and me. We call ourselves the Gang of Five, but there are only four of us. We do it to keep people on their toes. Make 'em wonder. Or maybe we do it because we figure that there's one more kid out there who's going to need a gang to be a part of. A misfit, like us.
Skeezie, Addie, Joe, and Bobby -- they've been friends forever. They laugh together, have lunch together, and get together once a week at the Candy Kitchen to eat ice cream and talk about important issues. Life isn't always fair, but at least they have each other -- and all they really want to do is survive the seventh grade.
That turns out to be more of a challenge than any of them had anticipated. Starting with Addie's refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance and her insistence on creating a new political party to run for student council, the Gang of Five is in for the ride of their lives. Along the way they will learn about politics and popularity, love and loss, and what it means to be a misfit. After years of getting by, they are given the chance to stand up and be seen -- not as the one-word jokes their classmates have tried to reduce them to, but as the full, complicated human beings they are just beginning to discover they truly are.
Skeezie, Addie, Joe, and Bobby -- they've been friends forever. They laugh together, have lunch together, and get together once a week at the Candy Kitchen to eat ice cream and talk about important issues. Life isn't always fair, but at least they have each other -- and all they really want to do is survive the seventh grade.
That turns out to be more of a challenge than any of them had anticipated. Starting with Addie's refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance and her insistence on creating a new political party to run for student council, the Gang of Five is in for the ride of their lives. Along the way they will learn about politics and popularity, love and loss, and what it means to be a misfit. After years of getting by, they are given the chance to stand up and be seen -- not as the one-word jokes their classmates have tried to reduce them to, but as the full, complicated human beings they are just beginning to discover they truly are.
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- Title The Misfits
- Author James Howe; Gerald Slota (Illustrator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York
- Date 2001-10-01
- ISBN 9780689839559 / 0689839553
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 6.5 x 1.1 in (21.08 x 16.51 x 2.79 cm)
- Ages 10 to 14 years
- Grade levels 5 - 9
- Reading level 960
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Themes
- Topical: Self-Esteem
- Library of Congress subjects Friendship, Schools
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00066390
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
A timely, sensitive, laugh-out-loud must-read.Voices of America
Citations
- Booklist, 11/15/2001, Page 572
- Booksense '76 Mar/Apr 2002, 03/01/2002, Page 1
- Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 01/01/2002, Page 174
- Horn Book Magazine, 11/01/2001, Page 750
- Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2002, Page 86
- Lambda Book Report, 11/01/2001, Page 29
- New York Times, 03/10/2002, Page 20
- Publishers Weekly, 10/29/2001, Page 64
- School Library Journal, 05/01/2005, Page 51
- Voice of Youth Advocates, 12/01/2001, Page 359
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