A review by katieproctorbooks
Pay Attention, Carter Jones by Gary D. Schmidt

4.0

Reread 5/2023– still feel about that same. Lovely story!

This book wasn’t as good as The Wednesday Wars or Okay for Now, but I still really enjoyed it. He just knows how to write good characters and human connection and emotion and good old middle school boy snark. I think the cricket thing threw me off in this one, it was hard to follow since I’m not familiar with the game. But I really enjoyed the rest of it.