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| Original Title: | My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park |
| ISBN: | 0803732279 (ISBN13: 9780803732278) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | T.C. Keller, Ale Perez, Andy Wexler, Augie Hwong |
| Literary Awards: | South Carolina Book Award Nominee for Young Adult Book Award (2011), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2010), Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award (2009), Peggy Miller Award (2009) |
Steve Kluger
Hardcover | Pages: 403 pages Rating: 4.04 | 7472 Users | 1106 Reviews
List About Books My Most Excellent Year
| Title | : | My Most Excellent Year |
| Author | : | Steve Kluger |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 403 pages |
| Published | : | March 13th 2008 by Dial |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Fiction. Romance. LGBT. Contemporary |
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Dear Anthony:I appreciate your recent interest, but I'm not accepting applications at this time. Your letter will be kept in our files and someone will get back to you if there is an opening. Thank you for thinking of me.
Respectfully,
Alejandra Perez
P.S. It's not Allie. It's Ale.
Meet T.C., who is valiantly attempting to get Alejandra to fall in love with him; Alejandra, who is playing hard to get and is busy trying to sashay out from under the responsibilities of being a diplomat's daughter; and T.C.'s brother Augie, who is gay and in love and everyone knows it but him.
Rating About Books My Most Excellent Year
Ratings: 4.04 From 7472 Users | 1106 ReviewsJudgment About Books My Most Excellent Year
WHY ISN'T EVERYONE READING THIS BOOK? It was great! First of all, there are three characters who are well written, well developed, and not too angsty. They are mostly happy, with adults involved in their lives (adults who think their kids are cool and smart), and it is an INTERESTING storyline, complete with Julie Andrews. On a side note, I am interested in the people who qualify this as a "LGBT" YA book, instead of just a great YA book. I have read goodreads readers who said it was unrealistic.This is one of the cutest books I've read. It's written in unconventional formats of letters, emails and IM's so it goes by quick. The characters are funny and charming, and I found myself smiling the whole time I was reading this with the occasional laugh. The writing is sincere and Kluger does an excellent job making the reader feel like they're part of the story. After I read the last page, I wanted to give the main characters a hug.
A charming YA book with quirky, smart teenage characters; gay and straight romantic story lines; a variety of writing mediums; heartwarming messages about love and family and community; AND a Julie Andrews cameo! Oh, and baseball for the more sports-minded reader. I'm not sure if the book would appeal to the average contemporary teenager, but this middle-aged, life-long musical theater fan found it delightful.
I give the rating of two stars in its truest sense of "it's okay." This was a difficult novel to rate. I thought the writing was really good, and it was funny. But the main characters were all so incredible. They were all wealthy (or at least not poor), they all were really smart/got good grades, they were all really talented in different ways, they were all very attractive, etc. And I guess it is quite possible that three people like them would all be friends, so I don't know why I'm
Well the ride is over and Im feeling pretty sad. I hate turning the last page when the book is so damn good. That said I urge anyone looking for a fun trip into the minds of 3 teenage school kids (with a 6 year old and a few adults throwing their two cents), in to read this book.This is a story about love, life and family. It is told through the Diary entrys and various emails and IM messages that are typical of Steven Klugers style.TC, Augie, and Alejandra are the main talkers in this story.
Totally cute! First loves, musicals, and a little deaf orphan waiting for Mary Poppins to adopt him! Adorable! Also worth mentioning, the father and son who can't just make a presentation about a monument in DC, but instead have to make a scale model of the National Mall, political conversations about the interned Japanese in WWII, and a variety of races and sexual orientations happily existing in a book without shouting LOOK AT US! WE'RE DIFFERENT! The negative: Red Sox. Though I did like the
5 Sickeningly Sweet Stars T.C., Alé and Augie are high-schoolers who have been assigned an English lesson of journaling their most excellent year. Follow along through these journal entries, chats, I.M.s, etc. as the three come of age and come into their own.Obviously, this one isnt ever going to win a Pulitzer, but judging the book for its genre it is absolutely worthy of 5 stars. I dont care if its completely cliché, the characters are too mature to be 14, the plot isnt realistic. So what?
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