Finch Goes Wild
August 25, 2008
Harmon doesn’t fit in the hole he gets shoved into. He has to break out. In the bizarre world of middle school, no good deed goes unpunished. Students who do homework, friends who look out for each other, teachers who try to keep kids interested–they all get slammed. With his grades at an all-time low, and his weight off the charts, Harmon is headed for disaster. He’s bombarded by his classmates’ jeering, his mother’s nagging, his father’s expectations, and his doctor’s orders. Even in his music, he finds too many wrong notes. Just when he most wishes that the whole noisy world would just go away, he finds a new world worth exploring.
Customer Review: The Magic of a Normal Life
Gingold creates an unusual kid with the normal growing up problems — or maybe he is a normal kid with the an unusual opportunity. After a year of chaos at middle school, Finch studies at home. He gets a chance to deal with his own problems himself. He learns self reliance and the discipline to work hard at what he likes to do, a process many of us still struggle with well after middle school. The story is a refreshing take on our modern world. Without magic, or catastrophic changes, Finch figures out how to grow up. Buy from here…
