Bluefish, Pat Schmatz
Bluefish, Pat Schmatz
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Bluefish

Author: Pat Schmatz

Narrator: Luke Daniels, Kate Rudd

Unabridged: 4 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/13/2011

Synopsis

Thirteen-year-old Travis has a secret: he can't read. But a shrewd teacher and a sassy girl are about to change everything in this witty and deeply moving novel.Travis is missing his old home in the country, and he's missing his old hound, Rosco. Now there's just the cramped place he shares with his well-meaning but alcoholic grandpa, a new school, and the dreaded routine of passing when he's called on to read out loud. But that's before Travis meets Mr. McQueen, who doesn't take "pass" for an answer—a rare teacher whose savvy persistence has Travis slowly unlocking a book on the natural world. And it's before Travis is noticed by Velveeta, a girl whose wry banter and colorful scarves belie some hard secrets of her own. With sympathy, humor, and disarming honesty, Pat Schmatz brings to life a cast of utterly believable characters—and captures the moments of trust and connection that make all the difference.

About Pat Schmatz

Pat Schmatz is the author of three previous books: Mrs. Estronsky and the U.F.O., Mousetraps, and Circle the Truth, which was named a Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year. She was awarded the 2010 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship for Bluefish. About the book, she says, “I started with Travis, a loner with a kind heart and an eye for beauty. He loved the woods and swamp and had no desire to move out. But when Velveeta’s colorful scarves caught his eye—and mine—all three of us began a walk through the world of possibility.” Pat Schmatz lives in rural Wisconsin.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lanica on December 06, 2011

PERSONAL REVIEW: I LOVED this book! LIBRARIAN REVIEW: It's not for everyone. Adults might be bored, unless they are trying to get into the mind of a school aged kid. It's aimed at a high school or middle school audience...or at teachers. It's a feel-good novel about hard luck and hard lives in the sc......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on October 30, 2019

My 7th grade son was assigned this for school and we read it together and I loved it - such great characters and great messages for kids AND adults ❤️......more

Goodreads review by HR on November 13, 2021

"𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙡 𝙞𝙩 𝙛𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙨 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙢𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙤𝙤 𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚?" 𝘋𝘪𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰n𝘦? 𝘋𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘥i𝘢𝘳𝘺, 𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘧 𝘵......more

Goodreads review by Steven R. on January 03, 2023

Few books have as immediate an impact on me as this book. As someone who grew up with a learning disability, a dual form of dyslexia, reading this book was much like reliving some of my own childhood. Schmatz does an amazing job of capturing the feelings, emotions and immense frustration of having a......more

Goodreads review by Jazmin on November 07, 2015

Iamgine how it would feel not to be able to read at your days of adolecensece. I am going to tell you all about the book Bluefish as you can see. The genre of the book bluefish is realistic fiction. What I really thought about this book was that it had alot of emotion and was a roller coaster of ev......more

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