The League of Unexceptional Children, Gitty Daneshvari
The League of Unexceptional Children, Gitty Daneshvari
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The League of Unexceptional Children

Author: Gitty Daneshvari

Narrator: Amanda Philipson

Unabridged: 4 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/20/2015

Synopsis

Are you average? Normal? Forgettable? If so, the League of Unexceptional Children is for you! This first book in a hilarious new adventure series is for anyone who's struggled to be noticed in a sea of above-average overachievers.

What is the League of Unexceptional Children? I'm glad you asked. You didn't ask? Well, you would have eventually and I hate to waste time. The League of Unexceptional Children is a covert network that uses the nation's most average, normal, and utterly unexceptional children as spies. Why the average kids? Why not the brainiacs? Or the beauty queens? Or the jocks? It's simple: People remember them. But not the unexceptionals. They are the forgotten ones. Until now!

Reviews

Goodreads review by Suad on November 08, 2015

This was an OK book. It wasn't as exciting as I expected it to be, given the title and premise. I felt like the author, although having tried, did a poor job in creating this spectacular world where "unexceptional" (i.e. very ordinary, average) children were being recruited and trained to go on real......more

Goodreads review by Pop on October 24, 2015

Unexceptional, But It Has Its Moments The basic premise here is popping up more and more. Two kids are so average and blandly invisible they are recruited by the League of Unexceptional Children to operate as spies. The running joke is that no one ever notices or remembers them so they are functional......more

Goodreads review by Carolyn on May 21, 2016

The League of Unexceptional Children by Gitty Daneshvari The League of Unexceptional Children by Gitty Daneshvari is published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.  I gave it two stars.  I wanted to like it.  I tried to like it.  I just didn't.  I had to force myself to finish reading it.    Two......more

Goodreads review by Seeing Double on June 11, 2015

Tristan does his first live book review for our blog. He has wanted to review books for awhile and I finally said yes when we got a bunch of middle grade books from Book Expo America. The League of Unexceptional Children was the first book he picked out of the stack and he just breezed through it. T......more

Goodreads review by Bookish on March 14, 2019

To be an ordinary, normal, average, unexceptional child in a world that celebrates first place, the best, top of the class,and so on is tantamount to being invisible Be it reality or books, the only characters which stick in the minds of people, are those who have made it big in life. But do we eve......more

Quotes

"Daneshvari recognizes that far more powerful than a dork becoming cool is the ignored finally being heard, the invisible seen. Here's hoping we will be witnessing much more of Jonathan and Shelley's kind of transformation, on the page and in life."—The New York Times

"Delivers hilarious shenanigans...This humorous new series is sure to appeal to fans of Daneshvari and other lovers of the ludicrous."—Kirkus

"Pokes sly fun at the pressure to raise future valedictorians and CEOs, by turning the tables on the classic trope of an average kid discovering greatness...Daneshvari's fast-paced, twisty story is chock-full of clever humor."—Publishers Weekly

"This...amusing chapter book goes down easy. Even with the fate of the world resting on their 'slightly hunched' shoulders, the main characters are so disarmingly upfront about their inadequacies that they'll definitely have readers on their side."—Booklist

"Keeps readers giggling."—SLJ

"It will hook readers and have them anxiously awaiting the next adventure."—School Library Connection

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