![]() She doesn’t wear what everyone else wears (she prefers long flowy skirts to jeans and sandals), she doesn’t wear makeup, she carries around a rat and a ukulele. She is different than anyone in the town of Mica has ever seen before. And that’s a good portion of who he is before the start of the story. He visits a popular eccentric retired professor to learn about life and to get advice. He has a best friend Kevin, and is the director of the school interview show, The Hot Seat. ![]() Our narrator is Leo, a sixteen year old Junior in high school. It’s a time before cell phones, that’s for certain. But how far in the past? Was it supposed to be current to the publishing date, or was it supposed to take place in the 1990’s, the 1980’s? We’re not really sure, and I suppose it doesn’t really matter. The book was published in 2000 or 2001, and it definitely doesn’t take place in the future. But for the when, there can be some movement there. We know where, the fictional town of Mica, Arizona, which is a new town that came to be because of a business. I’m not sure when this book is supposed to take place. I’d heard about it, and there’s a movie now, so I figured I would give it a shot. I read one of his middle grade books a few years ago, but this was the first one aimed at teens. I didn’t read Jerry Spinielli growing up, which I guess might seem odd because he was writing books for my age group. ![]()
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