This is a birthday present for a 13 year old boy. It is one of my all time favorite books. It has a great lesson.
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The 18th Emergency
ISBN 0140314512 - Previous reviews indicate that everyone thinks the story is predictable, and I have an issue with that. One problem is that I've never read a kids' book that wasn't predictable; second, I find it surprising that people think the way Benjie goes about handling his problem was really all that predictable!Benjie, aka Mouse, likes to write funny notes with arrows pointing to things. On a crack in the wall of his apartment building he wrote "To open building, tear along this line" and, on a picture of a Neanderthal man, he wrote the name of the school bully. Now he's running for his life, certain that Marv Hammerman will kill him when he catches him! Benjie and his friend, Ezzie, once created a list of emergencies and solutions but none of that prepared him for this emergency. Boa constrictors and gorillas, maybe, but not Hammerman.In the end, Benjie learns a little about honor and realizes that even bullies have feelings that can be hurt. What he does to make right what he's done wrong takes all the courage he's got. Really not as awful as other reviewers would have you believe - the worst of the book is Benjie's mother's apparent lack of interest in her son, but even that is something most kids can relate to on some level.- AnnaLovesBooks
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ISBN 0140314512 - Previous reviews indicate that everyone thinks the story is predictable, and I have an issue with that. One problem is that I've never read a kids' book that wasn't predictable; second, I find it surprising that people think the way Benjie goes about handling his problem was really all that predictable!
Benjie, aka Mouse, likes to write funny notes with arrows pointing to things. On a crack in the wall of his apartment building he wrote "To open building, tear along this line" and, on a picture of a Neanderthal man, he wrote the name of the school bully. Now he's running for his life, certain that Marv Hammerman will kill him when he catches him! Benjie and his friend, Ezzie, once created a list of emergencies and solutions but none of that prepared him for this emergency. Boa constrictors and gorillas, maybe, but not Hammerman.
In the end, Benjie learns a little about honor and realizes that even bullies have feelings that can be hurt. What he does to make right what he's done wrong takes all the courage he's got. Really not as awful as other reviewers would have you believe - the worst of the book is Benjie's mother's apparent lack of interest in her son, but even that is something most kids can relate to on some level.
- AnnaLovesBooks
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- Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2014
- Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2014
Top reviews from other countries
- Anandhakrishnan R KReviewed in India on August 23, 2023
Hilarious
A story of a school boy who mobbed by few fellas and he was afraid to face them and always running away out of fret.HilariousAnandhakrishnan R K
Reviewed in India on August 23, 2023
The Boy's way of overthinking was Hilarious.
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- Anne MillarReviewed in the United Kingdom on April 9, 2022
A brilliant story enjoyed by both adult and child
