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blankpagealex's review
2.0
The book started off strong, but then became a cliche middle school romance between an awkward guy and a dream girl. It felt like a missed opportunity to have a kid learn why it’s important to talk about his pubescent “feelings.”
jshettel's review
3.0
This is a book about erections. And although the number of penis references alone will probably make school librarians shy away from it, but this is a book targeted to the young adolescent male if there ever was one! Bobby's attempts at "correctional erectional therapy" will have them howling, but this is also a story of relationships, first love, raging hormones, and life in middle school. Written by a teacher - gotta love that!
schmilie's review
2.0
Had some funny parts, but tried too hard to make it inappropriate to impress middle school boys.
line_so_fine's review
3.0
Kids will like the humor and tone. I kind of wanted to go through this entire thing and count how many different terms one can use for boner, because there were some good creative ones in there.
christiana's review
2.0
Maybe I'm missing something, but I was not that impressed with this book. Then again, I am not a middle school boy (or a male at all, for that matter) so I'm willing to think it's just not geared towards my demographic. However, you know that scene in Mulan where she says she never wants to see a naked man again and then all these naked men run past her? That's what this book was like in a way. I don't need to read any more synonyms for a penis (bologna pony? That's a thing?) OR hear about the newest gross out tactic (putting a booger on a cockroach's back is just nasty) for a long long time.
I do give this book props for explaining that it's completely normal to get tons of erections over nothing, although it sure took the long way around to do it.
I do give this book props for explaining that it's completely normal to get tons of erections over nothing, although it sure took the long way around to do it.
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