Buddy Love: Now on Video [Library Binding]

Ilene Cooper (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 10 and up

Couch potato Buddy Love discovers that there is more to life than watching television when he uses his new video camera to capture his family and, in the process, learns a lot about his family and himself.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Buddy Love has only two real interests in life-watching girls and watching television. A couch potato whose insights and conversational topics are gleaned largely from talk shows, Buddy is roused from passivity when his family wins a new video camera. Determinedly mastering the necessary technology, Buddy interviews friends and family for a school project. As he maneuvers his camcorder around the house Buddy unearths unexpected family stories, including the startling revelation that his cantankerous live-in grandmother was once a Russian spy. On the other side of the TV screen, as it were, Buddy develops the self-confidence that allows him to stand up at last to his bullying sidekick Ron and to defend a girl who has been ostracized by her classmates. His emergence from a nondescript eighth grader into a more thoughtful and active figure puts a new spin on the old "TV is bad for you" argument. The story itself, however, feels thin, relying on the sort of superficial TV humor and plotting that Buddy is supposed to have outgrown. Ages 10-up.
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From School Library Journal

Grade 5-7?Philip Love, 13, nicknamed Buddy after a character in an old Jerry Lewis movie, The Nutty Professor, is interested only in watching television and watching girls until a social-studies project requires him to explore his own history. Armed with a video camera, he finds out some surprising things about his relatives, and realizes that they are as interesting as the characters on TV. Like the nerdy, nutty professor from the movie, Buddy learns to like himself in the course of the novel. He even decides to go as himself to the Halloween Dance, an act that requires finally standing up to one friend and defending another. Friendship, family, and self-acceptance are the dominant themes in Cooper's breezy, humorous, and insightful look at contemporary adolescence.?Connie Tyrrell Burns, Mahoney Middle School, South Portland, ME
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 10 and up
  
• Library Binding: 183 pages
• Publisher: Harpercollins (October 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060246642
• ISBN-13: 978-0060246648
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,390,129 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars buddy love now on video, December 10, 1999

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Daniel (Kansas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Buddy Love: Now on Video (Hardcover)

I did not like this book at all. I didn't like the writing style, it took way way too long to say one thing. the entire book was very boring and it only had one interesting character, and it's not even Buddy! The ending is uninteresting and it left me wantto rewrite it. Buddy's character is way too dull. Maybe it's just me. I think late elementary or early middle school students might enjoy this book. If you are looking for a book with alot of action, don't even pick this one up!

4.0 out of 5 stars This book is an awsome book with good review!, December 10, 1999

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Mandy (Osawatomie, Kansas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Buddy Love: Now on Video (Library Binding)

Many times Iget a book. But I don't read them. The first time I read this book Ithought in my mind maybe Ishould read a whole book. This book has good illistration. This book is the kind of reading material that some people who would like funny reading and sometimes it has some emotion.

The begining of this book was a bad thing for the Love family. When Mr. Love came home he said he had a surprise for the family. so they came into the kitchen. His mom does not like surprises, so he got them all in the kitchen and told them what he got: He said I won a camcorder. And when they were talking about what they were going to do with it, his sister and mother had the same opinion to get rid of it while Buddy and his dad had different things they wanted to do with it like Buddy wanted to make his own movie and his dad wanted to tape the Chicago Bears practice.

There were many parts I liked but there was this one part that got me; it is where Buddy locks his sister in the garage for taping him in his underware. He left her in the garage for hours.Another part I didn't like was when his sister got revenge on him by filming him in the shower.

I would recommend this to people who like funny revenge. It is an excellent book to revenge and tells you that you can get revenge without making it evil.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great book, December 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Buddy Love: Now on Video (Library Binding)

In theis good book focusing on the good and bad points of life Buddy Love finds out things that he never knew about himself and his family