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Harold Schernoff, 14-year-old science whiz and social nerd, has a theory for every problem, from dating, to bullies, to making money, to sports, to how to buy a car when you're underage. When he and his buddy team up to put his theories to the test, nothing goes according to plan. A ski lesson becomes: Mass x Acceleration x Slope of hill = eeeAAGGHHH. As for first dates, only Harold could mastermind such disaster. Only Harold could go fishing and get caught by the fish. And only Gary Paulsen could write such a wonderfully funny story of friendship.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 4-8-Paulsen's charming novel (Delacorte, 1997) is full of schemes thought up by the first-person narrator's friend, Harold Schernoff. Harold has a high IQ and uses his scientific genius to discover ways to get back at bullying football players and to find all the golf balls that fall in the river since they get a dime for every one found. However, the results of the boy's plans often go awry. The car the two 14-year-olds purchase, sure to raise their popularity, doesn't run long enough to get them back to town. The skis they borrow to be part of the "in crowd" don't quite follow the trajectory Harold expects. Listeners will be cheering for the boys when the neighborhood tyrant gets what's coming to him. MacLeod Andrews narrates with a youthful cadence during the action scenes and a wistful nostalgia in the sections where the writer looks back on a hard-earned, if not misspent youth. He does an excellent job of giving the boys distinctive voices, especially Harold's condescending whine. While the anecdotes related are always amusing, some period content may be unfamiliar to today's kids. However, all listeners will relate to the themes of bullying and pining after the popular girl.-C. A. Fehmel , St. Louis County Library, MO (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
Fourteen-year-old Harold Schernoff has a scientific theory for just about everything-from skiing and playing sports to illegally purchasing a car. With close friend Gary, Harold navigates the social minefield that is high school and tests his theories (many of which often end in disaster) in Paulsen's novel about friendship. MacLeod Andrews delivers a pitch-perfect performance in this audio edition. The novel is told from Gary's point of view, and Andrews narrates in a high, nasal voice, sounding like a boy on the verge of puberty, but regulating his pitch so that his reading never becomes cloying. Andrews also excels at other characters' voices, deftly differentiates between Gary and Harold, and creates such a natural rapport between the two boys that listeners may forget he's the only narrator. Ages 10-up. A Yearling paperback. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
Slapstick comedy prevails as Harold Schernoff and his sidekick--picked on by the football team, shunned by the cheerleaders, and generally ignored by the rest of Washington Junior High School--participate in some far-fetched schemes to shake off their unpopularity. Paulsen's afterword highlights Schernoff's most liberating discovery: that a good sense of humor and a faithful friend can make an outcast into a winner. From HORN BOOK 1997, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
A rollicking tale that's dressed up like a novel but reads more like a memoir, from the new comedian on the block, Paulsen (Worksong, p. 304, etc.). The never-named narrator, whom readers are led to believe is Paulsen himself, is a nerd just like his friend, Harold Schernoff; together they are ``easily the most unpopular boys'' in their junior high. But if Harold is a brainy geek, with theories about everything from girls to fishing to bullies, the narrator operates under a somewhat dimmer star, willing to help Harold test his theories and come up with results that are just short of disastrous. Under Harold's leadership they find a surefire way to meet girls--by enrolling in home economics--until the football team finds out and Harold has a bigger problem to solve. Other adventures involve skiing and fishing--spectacular failures; the job they get as pinsetters in a local bowling alley results in one of the funniest episodes in the book and, incidentally, leads to the narrator's small triumph over the bully Dick Chimmer. It's all flat-out goofy and great fun, as well as an inspiring story of shared experiences that, weird as they are, form the basis of a strong and affectionate friendship. (Fiction. 10+)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 5^-7. Paulsen's humorous novel, narrated by a 14-year-old, self-confessed geek, focuses on the narrator's friend, Harold. Equally geeky and brainy as well, Harold takes the lead in an episodic series of adventures ranging from the unusual but pragmatic (enrolling in home economics to meet girls) to the sneaky and possibly suicidal (taking revenge on the football players who broke his slide rule by giving them a cake flavored with 43 boxes of chocolate laxatives). The novel's late-1950s setting may limit its appeal somewhat, but Paulsen taps into two factors that haven't become outdated in the last four decades: adolescent angst over popularity with the opposite sex and the broad humor that appeals to some pre-teen and teenage boys. --Carolyn Phelan