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Penguin Problems (2013)

by Lauren Myracle(Favorite Author)

3.44 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0525422641 (ISBN13: 9780525422648)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Dutton Juvenile

series

The Life of Ty

review 1: I luuuuuuved the Winnie books, so was really excited for this one, about Winnie's little brother. It was cute, but not at the same caliber. Ty is stuck in the middle now that "Teensy Baby Maggie" has come along. And being in the middle is not a fun place to be. His big sisters have their own lives, and his mom is so busy with the baby that she doesn't have much time to pay any attention to Ty. When he acts out to get attention, then he gets in trouble. Realistic and funny, this is a great slice of life from a 7-year-old boy's POV.
review 2: I LOVED this book. Ty is so very real and so intensely lovable in his vulnerability, sweetness, and wildness, too. He reminded me a LOT of my own older son, which made parts of this book even more poignant for me to re... moread. (And when I then started reading the book to my son, he said he thought he and Ty would DEFINITELY be friends.) The interactions between him and the other kids rang so, so true (sometimes painfully true, from the perspective of a parent); so did the dynamic between him and his parents, which has been seriously (although not irreparably) disrupted by the arrival of a new baby sister. Ty wants to love his little sister, and he does - but suddenly his mom doesn't seem to love him anymore (although clearly, an adult reader can tell, she does - she's just running on 3 hours' sleep a night, and she's overwhelmed - something that, again, was almost TOO close to home for me to read about right now!).I loved, loved, loved Ty, and I can't wait to read more of his adventures. less

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