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Jonah Black

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Jonah returns home to Pompano Beach, FL, after two years living with his father in PA. An aura of mystery surrounds his return. He was expelled from Masthead Academy for reasons that are unclear other than that a car accident and a girlfriend named Sophie are involved. Jonah himself doesn't make it clear in this first book of the series. He's back in touch with friends who have changed since he left, including his sister Honey, a genius who skipped 10th grade and is now a grade ahead of Jonah. Jonah is seeing a therapist and feeling like a social alien.… (plus d'informations)
 
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Salsabrarian | 4 autres critiques | Feb 2, 2016 |
After finishing this book I just continued to lie in my bed (I have a habit of reading really late at night because I can focus better) and ponder for a few minutes about my judgement. This book is written in a journal style. Jonah Black is both the author (that exists) and the fictional character who's writing the journal. I don't know if the character reflects Black himself when he was this age or what, and I really didn't care, but it occurred to me sometimes. This book is pretty hilarious. It's about this Jonah Black who's been away in a boarding school in Pennsylvania for 10th and 11th grade, and comes back to his former school in Florida because he was expelled only to find that he has to repeat 11th grade. That upsets him very much. The reason he was expelled was unknown in this book. He keeps saying he doesn't want to talk about it when asked. And people keep making up stories about it. His mom thinks he needs help, so she makes Jonah see a shrink every week. Jonah keeps seeing/describing this Sophie character. I don't know if she's real or just a figment of his teenage imagination. I think she's a real girl whom he knew in that boarding school, but after that she only exists in his imagination because he hasn't spoken to her ever since. It's like she's stuck in his head, and he misses her so much or something that he creates situations in it, or really sees her like before his eyes, but I'm not sure. Anyway. At first I thought I wouldn't like this book much, having read a lot of books written in this journal/diary style. But I guess I like it. It's funny. I swear I've just been reading 3/4 of the book in bed without moving. I love the names his sister, Honey, calls him. I guess they strike me as hilarious because I've never heard them used in conversations before, as English isn't my native language. Seeing these words (such as phlegmball and scrotumface) used just cracked me pretty badly. However, this book doesn't answer any questions. Is Sophie real? How does he really feel about Posie? Who's Northgirl? Who yells out his name at the end of the book? Will he get to be in senior class? Nope. Unanswered. It sucks that my chance of finding out is zero, because I don't have books 2 and 3 and 4. And they're not available in any bookstores in my country. I got this book from a used bookstore for such a cheap price it's almost a steal. If it wasn't for that I wouldn't have even heard of this book at all. All that being said, I think this book is quite good for its genre. If you want to turn your brain off for a while, this short book of 233 pages is your thing. But don't expect to get anything from it, 'cause in the end it'll probably leave you wondering and wanting more instead, like me right now.… (plus d'informations)
 
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scarletsparks | 4 autres critiques | Mar 26, 2012 |
Readers Annotation:
Jonah is expelled from his boarding school in Pennsylvania and has to go live with his mother in Florida. When he returns to Don Shula High School with friends he hasn’t seen in over a year, to his embarrassment he has to repeat 11th grade and is now a year behind his overachieving little sister.
Plot Summary:
Jonah believes he is beginning his senior year at Don Shula High School in Florida after being expelled from the Pennsylvania boarding school he was attending in to live closer to his father. Now he is living with his mother a best-selling self-help "sexpert". Jonah's sister is one year younger than he is and has skipped a grade at her magnet school. She is very promiscuous and manages to keep her mother clueless. On his first day back at school Joan learns that he must repeat the eleventh grade. This puts Jonah in the embarrassing position of being a year behind his little sister. The situation just gets worse, Jonah is having problems communicating with the opposite sex. The only girl he is attracted to is his best friend Posie, but while Jonah was gone she found herself a boyfriend.
Why Selected: This series was recommended in "Teen Genreflecting".
Ages: 16+/Interests: Fiction, Teen Relationships
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sbrew1 | 4 autres critiques | Aug 4, 2009 |
Jonah Black can't believe it: He has to REPEAT 11th grade! After two years away from his home town of Pompano Beach, he thought he would get to return a senior like the rest of his friends that he left behind. On top of that, Jonah can't seem to stop daydreaming. About the girl in the waiting room of the shrink he is being forced to see. About the girl whose pizza he delivers. About the disappearing/reappearing girl he has dubbed "Watches Boys Dive." And especially about the mysterious Sophie from the school he left behind and his old chum Posie who has suddenly become the epitome of beautiful and perfect. Jonah need to figure out a way to get back into 12th grade where he belongs as well as figure out what to do about his feelings, for Sophie, for Posie, and for seemingly every other woman who looks at him sideways. And will we EVER find out what happened at the private school Jonah attended for 2 years?

Written in journal style, sentences often break off mid-way through when Jonah gets interrupted by teachers and friends and life crisis. We get to see his chat room conversations and are privy to his daydreams which weave themselves into his narrative. The writing is believable even when the characters aren't. Jonah's best friend is so incredibly smarmy and has an arsenal of high quality recording equipment and detective skills. All of the females in the book are apparently braindead and easily swayed by the lamest of lines and affectations. Jonah's parents are so utterly ridiculous and neglectful in such goofy ways that readers will not be convinced. However, the book reads fast and Jonah is funny and somewhat charming. A good summer read for the male teens out there.
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TZacek | 4 autres critiques | Jun 27, 2009 |

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