The Schwa Was Here

There's a story I tell in trainings about a high school where teachers were given a list of students and asked to put a gold star next to students they knew. At the end of the day, the result was a classic bell curve: a small group of over-achievers known by all, a larger group of average kids known......more

Now Shusterman's Unwind was edgy and mind-boggling (and terrifying in its premise), but I can't say the writing itself was my favorite. In this book, however, I fell in love with the narrative voice. Shusterman showed great skill in creating a character whose first-person narration painted such a cl......more

OMG! I can't believe I lucked out again! Last year it was Holes and this year started out with this superfun read. The reason I picked this one was that I knew this was about the closest I'd ever get to reading about a character with the same name as mine :P Moving on to matters of lesser consequence......more

The Schwa was Here was my first book by Neal Shusterman that I read. The librarian at my school recommended it to me, and although I don't usually read recommended books because my list is so long anyways, I was so entertained by the title of chapter one ("Manny Bullpucky Gets His Sorry Butt Hurled......more

I remember hearing so much about this when it first came out, and then I didn't get a chance to read it, and suddenly it seemed like there was just so MUCH Shusterman out there, most of it straight up sci fi, that I sort of forgot that this one existed, and was written by him. It just faded from my......more