July 25, 2013

[GoodReads Review]   ☆☆☆☆   As a teenager myself at 18, I can really relate to the struggles and tribulations of the main character and felt it was very well written and flowed so easily that I literally could not put it down! I love the ending and it correlates with any teenager’s life!  [“Tammy”]

July 24, 2013

[GoodReads Review]   ☆☆☆☆  This an enjoyable, if not exactly realistic, portrayal of middle school life for one boy and his friends. It’s perhaps a bit utopian, but it could potentially show kids how to be a good friend to someone who isn’t exactly easy to be friends with. I will definitely offer it to my…

June 7, 2013

[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…

May 27, 2013

[Amazon.com Review]    ☆☆☆☆☆ This is an excellent story about fear, and facing it down. This is a well crafted tale of Alexander , a middle school kid who takes his fear to such a level that he is disconnected from reality in his neurotic world. With the help of his friends, he faces his worst…

April 23, 2013

[Amazon.com Review]  ☆☆☆☆☆  Even if you never suffered bullying in school, the voices in this book will sound familiar. I loved following Alexander’s logic and thought processes as he worked through a major emotional growth spurt. The author is obviously very fond of his protagonist and by the end of the first chapter, so is the…

April 22, 2013

[Amazon.com Review]    ☆☆☆☆☆  Alexander is 13 and lives with a constant fear of being bullied. In this well-written work about the angst of adolescence, we are at once supporting Alexander in his quest for safety from his perceived enemies while at the same time questioning whether such fears are even warranted. Interesting character sketches of…

April 15, 2013

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