Quick read and very fun! I liked the author's asides to the reader. Quite a tale! ( )

Tony's voice is teen stream-of-consciousness...

This is a YA book due to the content. It is told from the perspective of a 12-year-old boy who loves art class and draws several examples of the human body for class. He does a great job and is even entered in an art show locally! The problem? The problem you ask? His muses are the strippers at the club where his mom dances. What happens is hilarious but so realistic, showing how people overreact to certain situations. A quick but great read. ( )

This book was a lot of fun. The book is told in a style that implies that the main character, Tony, a middle school student. His mother is Al, an exotic dancer at the Glass Cafe. Al is trying really hard to bring Tony up alone to be a smart and interesting guy. Although Al works as an exotic dancer, she actually has degrees but only does this because it makes a lot of money. Tony gets to do some drawings of the other dancers, as figure studies. There is nothing sexual or dirty going on, but when the drawings go one exhibit, someone makes a complaint and the social working handling the problem handles it poorly and much drama ensues. The book is funny and provides a lot to think about regarding looking past the obvious such as peoples jobs and how they look, to see what is really there. ( )

This book was a lot of fun. The book is told in a style that implies that the main character, Tony, a middle school student. His mother is Al, an exotic dancer at the Glass Cafe. Al is trying really hard to bring Tony up alone to be a smart and interesting guy. Although Al works as an exotic dancer, she actually has degrees but only does this because it makes a lot of money. Tony gets to do some drawings of the other dancers, as figure studies. There is nothing sexual or dirty going on, but when the drawings go one exhibit, someone makes a complaint and the social working handling the problem handles it poorly and much drama ensues. The book is funny and provides a lot to think about regarding looking past the obvious such as peoples jobs and how they look, to see what is really there. ( )