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A review by bookwormjimmy
The Perfect Score by Rob Buyea
4.0
The kids at Lake View Middle School are not all right.
Kids have enough to deal with in middle school. Friends. New teachers. Homework. But when the state testing threatens to take away all the fun that they hold dear in school, there seems to be only one solution to get out of it. How to get the perfect score.
This is a wonderful children's/YA book that does a great job of setting up the world in which these kids live in. The main focus is on the kids, their unique personalities and points of view, and the impact that this high stakes test has not only on them but their school community as well. Each character is unique and speaks with their own voice, have their own set of challenges in life, and the chapters are relatively short. This gives young readers easy access for someone to connect too. The ending was handled pretty well, although some of the side stories seemed to have their problems solved a little too easily.
The Perfect Score may not be the perfect book, but does a really great job of putting young readers in the mind of people who may be a little different than them and challenges them to think different.
Kids have enough to deal with in middle school. Friends. New teachers. Homework. But when the state testing threatens to take away all the fun that they hold dear in school, there seems to be only one solution to get out of it. How to get the perfect score.
This is a wonderful children's/YA book that does a great job of setting up the world in which these kids live in. The main focus is on the kids, their unique personalities and points of view, and the impact that this high stakes test has not only on them but their school community as well. Each character is unique and speaks with their own voice, have their own set of challenges in life, and the chapters are relatively short. This gives young readers easy access for someone to connect too. The ending was handled pretty well, although some of the side stories seemed to have their problems solved a little too easily.
The Perfect Score may not be the perfect book, but does a really great job of putting young readers in the mind of people who may be a little different than them and challenges them to think different.