It's all put together so pleasingly, with punch and wit and smarts, and in such a way that the events and characters stay with you.?pw.com "Shelf Talker" blog A memorable debut.?kirkus Reviews With the potential to occupy the rarified air of titles like S. It's useful to point out that much can hide under a hardened exterior.?los Angeles Times There's something special about this book. Grades Ian Chipman Review Scrawl is the rare novel written from the bully's point of view. An unusual sort of bully redemption story, with patient, not reluctant, readers squarely in its sights. Much to his droogs horror, he gets involved making costumes for the school play, and his increasingly confrontational clashes with them spell both trouble and growth. Some readers might wish he d stayed a little more bottled up though his wordy tendencies sometimes drag the narrative but Shulman establishes a nice voice for him, as Tod rips jokes so dry they can float away and shows some real heart dealing with his less-than-desirable lot in life. The classic smarter-than-histeachers underachiever with a rotten home life, Tod has a real way with words (the way he crashes, then dominates the spelling bee is priceless), and he soon warms to his enforced writing therapy. From Booklist After class-bully Tod and his droogs get caught vandalizing school property, his punishment is to spend every day in after-school detention writing in a notebook. Joel Shoemaker, formerly at South East Junior High School, Iowa City, IAα(c) Copyright Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. And nothing you do here is going to ever change that. There are loose ends, but in the end it's not so much what happened, as the fun of getting there, finding out whether Tod is right or not when he writes, I'm a loser, okay? I was born a loser and I'll live a loser and I'll die a loser. Still, he is a funny, quirky, interesting character. The plot is thin, as Tod gets roped into providing the costumes for a school play written and produced by that spooky goth girl Luz Montoya. Lacking money for basic necessities like food and clothes, he extorts it from losers at school and otherwise tries to keep a fairly low profile. His mom, a seamstress, does alterations for a dry cleaners (Tod helps), and he tries to stay away from her husband, whom he describes as unpredictable. He reads, does his homework, and gets good grades. Woodrow, the guidance counselor, for a school break-in with his buddies (droogs), who increasingly resent that he's gotten this cushy punishment while they are consigned to clean the school grounds. Readers slowly learn what makes Tod, a self-confessed bully, tick by reading the notebook he writes in (not, he insists, a journal) during after-school detention. You think I'm fixable, don't you? You want to fix the bad guy. Scrawl: A Novel By Mark Shulman Bibliography Sales Rank: # in Books Published on: Released on: Original language: English Number of items: 1 Dimensions.33" h x.66" w x 5.53" l.47 pounds Binding: Paperback 240 pages Download Scrawl: A Novel.pdf Read Online Scrawl: A Novel.pdfģ Download and Read Free Online Scrawl: A Novel By Mark Shulman Editorial Review From School Library Journal Gr 7 Up I know what you think. for real? Read Tod's notebook for yourself. Woodrow help Tod stop playing the bad guy before he actually turns into one. He can be painfully funny and he can be brutally honest. Tod's punishment: to scrawl his story in a beat-up notebook. He doesn't know why he's there, but she does. Woodrow, a no-nonsense guidance counselor. Lucky Tod must spend his daily detention in a hot, empty room with Mrs. Then to make things worse, Tod and his friends get busted doing something bad. The wimps have stopped coughing up their lunch money. Download Scrawl: A Novel.pdf Read Online Scrawl: A Novel.pdfĢ Scrawl: A Novel By Mark Shulman Scrawl: A Novel By Mark Shulman Tod Munn is a bully. 1 Scrawl: A Novel By Mark Shulman Scrawl: A Novel By Mark Shulman Tod Munn is a bully.
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