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Hero-Type (2008)

par Barry Lyga

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Feeling awkward and ugly is only one reason sixteen-year-old Kevin is uncomfortable with the publicity surrounding his act of accidental heroism, but when a reporter photographs him apparently being unpatriotic, he steps into the limelight to encourage people to think about what the symbols of freedom really mean.… (plus d'informations)
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    Runa: The books similarly deal with issues of blind patriotism without deeper thought, one focusing more about supporting the troops, the other about the pledge of allegiance.
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Didn't finish it. I hate that. The thing is, Boy Toy (by the same author) is one of my all time favorite YA novels. Yet this one, and his other that takes place at the same high school, just really don't do it for me. Great writing, but I can't seem to connect with the characters. Boy Toy, however, is seriously great. ( )
  nogomu | Oct 19, 2023 |
After Kevin Ross saves Leah Muldoon from a serial killer known as The Surgeon everyone calls him a hero and wants a piece of him, the news media, the mayor, everybody. Kross, as he’s known by his friends in the Council of Fools, was on a national news program, the school had an assembly honoring him, and he received a $30,000 reward; and all because he happened to be at the library when Leah was attacked. He wonders what people would think if they knew the real reason he was in the right place at the right time. But he doesn’t dwell on that possibility. The mayor of Brookdale offers to sell Kross a cheap car from his dealership and the media makes an event out of it. The mayor places two ribbon magnets on the car supporting the troops and when Kevin’s father, who is a Gulf War veteran, asks him to remove them, someone from the school paper captures him throwing the ribbons in the garbage. The repercussions of this action drive the rest of the novel and raise questions for Kross about freedom of speech, supporting the troops. A whole new media circus begins and Kross wonders how he went from being the town’s hero to the town’s goat. He and the Council of Fools were always misfits but now Kross is virtually a pariah. ( )
  Dairyqueen84 | Mar 15, 2022 |
Kevin is a teenager with a secret. Yes, he did save Leah from the Surgeon (a man who drugged, raped, and murdered four other girls) but jut because he saved her.. does that make him a hero? And worse, what if people discover the reason that he was there in that alley on the night that he saved her?

Barry Lyga once more tackles difficult questions in a young adult novel that can be enjoyed by just about anyone. The question of morals comes into play, but nowhere near as much as the questions of free speech, free thought, and right action. In the end, this is a book that transcends political parties and affiliations and instead digs deep into what it means to be an American.

Perhaps a bit surprisingly, this is a very timely book, and in my opinion, a very important one. Lyga certainly has a lot of good things to say. ( )
  Lepophagus | Jun 14, 2018 |
I didn't really like the main character or the premise and ideas portrayed in the story. ( )
  Jen.ODriscoll.Lemon | Jan 23, 2016 |
I didn't really like the main character or the premise and ideas portrayed in the story. ( )
  Jen.ODriscoll.Lemon | Jan 23, 2016 |
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Dedicated to Captain Peter G. Madriñan and Major Gregory C. Tine, United States Army, both serving in the Middle East as I write this.

Fine soldiers, better friends.
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No one's mother should be a hot lesbian. It should be illegal or something.
What's the point of freedom of speech if everyone says and thinks the same thing anyway?  What's the point of freedom of speech if everyone is forced to say the same thing?  Or afraid to say anything different?
Give us guns and bombs and helicopter support and tell a bunch of kids to make foreign policy work.  Kill people to save people's lives.  Blow things up to build them up.  And what's the result?  Ten years, fifteen years later, we're right back there again, doing it all over again.
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Feeling awkward and ugly is only one reason sixteen-year-old Kevin is uncomfortable with the publicity surrounding his act of accidental heroism, but when a reporter photographs him apparently being unpatriotic, he steps into the limelight to encourage people to think about what the symbols of freedom really mean.

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