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  • Age Range: 12 and up
  • Grade Level: 7 and up
  • Lexile Measure: 900 (What's this?)
  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition (March 5, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1442457384
  • ISBN-13: 978-1442457386
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (110 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsThree years in the life
By Krista on May 27, 2001
Format: Mass Market Paperback
What has caused the descent of Steve York, verbally gifted high school student, once a straight A student, now an apathetic drug user?
A few months before graduation, Steve's guidance counselor intervenes, arranging for Steve to complete a failing English credit by composing a 100 page story.
Steve decides to write about his sophomore and junior year of high school, when he became involved with a group of non-conformists and formed the Grace Order of Dadaists (GOD) club. Also during that time, Steve met his first love and experienced the worst kind of heartbreak.
As Steve relates the sometimes wonderful, sometimes painful story of those years, he alternates with commentary on his senior year in San Diego: his academic recovery, fueled in part by a new love interest, and his reconciliation of long time tension with his father, a famous astronaut.
The novel's structure highlights the downward trajectory of Steve's Houston years, contrasted with the upward swing of his year in San Diego. Thomas tells Steve's story with a mix of clever humor, engrossing early-90s trivia, and non-sentimental, realistic teenage emotions. Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 starsReview of Rats Saw God
By Jordan Enyeart on November 13, 2001
Format: Mass Market Paperback
The way that this book is written, you can't really say that you are going to stop "at the end of this chapter." There are no actual chapters. Taking place in two different years- one of which is the present time of the book, and one the essay that the main character is writing- it goes back and forth, sometimes with as little as two paragraphs in a section.
The book is mainly about Steve York, a San Diego senior in high school, who is failing, bummed out about life, and at the beginning he has a constant high. It goes back and forth between him in the present, and him as a sophomore student in Houston, Texas, who is popular at school, and is liked by everyone, who has a great girlfriend, and a lot of close friends- the only bad thing about his life, is that he lives with his father, Alan York, who is a world famous astronaut. Steve almost always calls his father "the astronaut".
A no-nonsense counselor, Mr. Demouy, tells him that if he writes a hundred page paper on the topic of his choice, that he can graduate from high school, and get his missing English credit. Through out the book, Demouy and Steve become close.
The book takes place in two different times and places, the late eighties, in Houston, Texas, and about nineteen ninety, in San Diego, California. In Texas, Steve lives in a suburb, in a large house, that has boxes that were never unpacked scattered through out it. And in San Diego, he lives with his mother- who is never home, for she travels with her husband (a pilot) almost all the time- and his sister, who turns out to be a major part of the story. Steve hates it at his dad's house, and doesn't care- mainly because he is (or was) high all the time- about where he lives in San Diego.
I loved this book, but it isn't for everyone.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsIn search for meaning
By Brian M. Ayres on June 25, 2002
Format: Hardcover
I was assigned this novel for a master's class in teaching the adolescent learner. Thomas writes from the true perspective of a teenager in search of a meaning in his life when things seem hopeless and lost. Steve York displays all the characteristics of a high schooler looking for his identity. Although he protrays himself as a cynic and misfit, York represents all teenagers who simply seek acceptance and a place to fit in. York experiences the highs and lows, including his first love and the battle of appeasing a disappointed father.
Through writing, York finds that meaning and is able to mend fences and realize that only you can truly choose the right path for yourself. Steve eventually does that, makes up with his father and uses his intellect for construction and not destruction.
This is a solid YA novel that many teenagers should be able to associate with.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA new classic- READ THIS ITS GREAT
By A Customer on August 20, 1999
Format: Hardcover
In this latest novel, Rob Thomas presents an authentic portrait of high school life in America. Essentially structured as an autobiographical account of the life of one young self-proclaimed iconoclast, this book deals with typical episodes in the life of a high schooler in modern times; homecoming floats, semiformal dances, Pearl Jam concerts. But more importantly- it delves into the psyche of teenagers and the varying approaches to these events. From the stereotypical rite of passage types who go to football games on Friday nights and drink at parties afterwards to the self-proclaimed nonconformists whose dogmatic insistence on "standing out" borders on hypocrisy, the author employs poignant characters that the reader identifies with closely and a vivid first person narrator to paint realistic portrait of the social infrastructure of the American high school. Thomas has a powerful contemporary voice that today's youth will relate to and which other teen authors often lack; his obvious familiarity with the modern American teenager (stemming from five years as a high school journalism teacher) manifests itself in authentic depictions of the ubiquitous social intricacies found in high schools across the country. From the "low-maintenance Marcia Brady trend girls" and their "long, straight, center-parted hair, poufy, midriff-baring tops, bell-bottom jeans with ragged hems and cork-soled clogs" to the reaction over the death of demigod Kurt Cobain and his "It's better to burn out than fade away philosophy," this book captures the essence of a generation.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsBought this because I loved Veronica Mars

Bought this because I loved Veronica Mars. Had heard this was a great story. Was actually less great than expected. I wouldn't be likely to recommend it to anyone else to read.

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Published 17 months ago by Maggie
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Well written and kept my interest to the very end.

Published 18 months ago by Joyful
4.0 out of 5 starsPage turner

The book moved right along and kept my interest. I enjoyed the characters, the main character Steve definitely grew a lot during the span of the book. A good weekend read.

Published 20 months ago by Erno Gyetvai
5.0 out of 5 starsI like VM a lot

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Published 20 months ago by C. Sherrill
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat Book

A great read. I should have expected nothing more from Rob Thomas. Reminded me of some of the high school crap we all go through. The book reminded me of a John Hughes movie!

Published 21 months ago by Rebecca Bruce
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat book

I love Rob Thomas as an author and this, as usual, was a great book to read again and again.

Published 22 months ago by Veronica V
1.0 out of 5 starsNope

Really not digging this story or the way the author writes. Waste of my money but time. Oh well I suppose

Published on April 2, 2014 by Brittany
5.0 out of 5 starsgreat read

better than i thought it would be. veronica mars was even related back to this book.
it was a great read.

Published on March 27, 2014 by Carol A. Hedrick

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