Reviews

Bullies in the Headlights by Matthew Buckley

chanizzle's review against another edition

3.0

More adventures of the Buckley brothers. Not as memorable as Chicken's in the Headlights.

nicolepeck's review against another edition

5.0

This book was not quite as laugh out loud hilarious as the first book, at least for me, until well over halfway through, but I still really enjoyed it and I actually went ahead and gave it 5 stars because of the message and how well, I thought, it was taught. The people in the book aren't perfect, any of them. Even Brother Winston who teaches Matthew's Primary class has a past. I did figure out who was helping the Hagbarts (aka the bullies) pretty much right away. There were so many funny things woven into this story, from the dad trying to find urinals at the hardware store to the boys practically undressing before leaving church in order to be the first one changed into play clothes at home. I was kinda bummed that the issue with the librarian wasn't resolved more in the first book, and I loved how it finally was in this one. The pixieing that the Buckleys do in this book is awesome. I love the day-by-day, play-by-play account of that. I did wonder at the continuing theme of headlights in the title, but that is nicely brought around towards the end.

The preface to this book states that the author was working on another book with the theme of scouting, and that is very subtly referred to at the end (which you probably wouldn't know if you hadn't read the preface), but I don't see that he has published any other books since this one (which was in 2007). I really would love to read more of his work and the adventures of the Buckleys and hope that he finishes the scouting one or does write more books.