[GoodReads Review]   ☆☆☆☆☆   Samuels’ debut book, “My Life at the Bottom of the Food Chain” is about a 13 year old boy named Alexander. Rich Samuel’s characters are amazing, in the fact that they are so well detailed you feel as though you’re best friends with the characters. The book is amazingly written, it gives just enough detail for your imagination to work well and actually see what the characters would be seeing. This book is a must read for anyone who likes to read, teenagers, and anyone who is raising teenagers. Trust me, you will love this book.

Alexander, the protagonist, believes that he is the smallest fish in the Sea of Predators, which is middle school. Alexander created an app, named BullyTrack, which he used to stay safe from all of the bullies in middle school. Alexander has set times to go to school and when to leave school and he also has certain ways of staying safe from “pantsing” “Swirlies” and any other bully things that could happen in middle school.

Though Alexander’s friends, Anthony, Vladimir, and Darrell think Alexander is completely nuts Alexander believe that his app, BullyTrack, can save him, or anyone for that matter, from life and death. He has good reason to believe that. During science class, the teacher magically decides to switch everything up and have the kids to change seats. Alexander gets a boy named Paul. Which on Bullytrack Paul was up there on potential bullies. This is when Alexander’s life begins its own swirly through a sea of predators that Alexander has to survive. Will he survive? Will he end up becoming a bully himself? Will he get homeschool? Whatever happens to Alexander, you will have to read to find out. [“Anthony A.”]