A review by mhall
Elliot Allagash by Simon Rich

4.0

At its best, this approaches the works of Daniel Pinkwater in its zany and original hilarity. The tale is simple enough: the most unpopular boy in middle school is adopted as a pet project by Elliot Allagash, a new classmate of unimaginable wealth. Elliot promises he can make even the nerdiest, most hopeless case the most popular person in school. The short novel can't quite sustain the height of its beginnings, and by the end has become more conventional and the narrator ends up learning a lesson and growing as a person.