So yesterday on Twitter I asked this question:Īnd boy did I get some great responses. But I need some new book recommendations other than what’s staring out at me from the bookstagram every day. Going AugToday marks the official launch day for School Library Journal’s April Issue, featuring both an article on yours truly and a starred review of King of the Screwups. In fact, everything is so RIGHT NOW or COMING SOON, that often stuff that just came out a couple months ago is long since forgotten. And because everything is so of the moment, they’re probably things that either JUST came out, or worse (if you want to read them now right now) won’t be out for another couple months or (gasp!) years. (Apr.If you spend any time at all on YA social media (Twitter, Instagram, and sometimes Facebook), chances are you’re inundated with book recommendations.

Readers-screwups or not-will empathize as Liam, utterly likable despite his faults, learns to be himself. ) is full of comic moments featuring “Aunt” Pete's glam-rock band buddies and Liam's relentless blunders, as well as his uncommon fashion expertise (“You're like a fashion Einstein,” gushes one of Pete's friends). “You'll do what you do, which, if I'm guessing correctly, is to be wildly and naturally popular.” Going's latest (after The Garden of Eve Darleen, a hostile classmate Liam tries to befriend, sees right through him. Popularity” rep and reinvent himself as studious and nerdy (he even joins the audio-visual club), but he can't hide his charm. To regain his father's approval, Liam tries to lose his “Mr. Liam's softhearted mother arranges for him to move in with her husband's estranged brother, Pete, a cross-dressing deejay who lives “in a broken-down trailer park in the middle of nowhere,” per Liam's father. You can read this before King of the Screwups PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Goingwhich was published in April 6th 2009. Going’s knack for defying stereotypes and creating memorable characters will not disappoint fans of Fat Kid Rules the World (Putnam, 2003) and Saint Iggy (Harcourt, 2006).-School Library Journal, starred review 'Going’s latest flows easily with smooth, realistic dialogue and reads like a coming-out story for straight guys. Going Here is a quick description and cover image of book King of the Screwupswritten by K.L. He breaks the camel's back when he's caught in flagrante delicto with a girl on his father's office desk and gets kicked out of the house. Brief Summary of Book: King of the Screwups by K.L. Liam, 17, is a world-class ne'er-do-well. Liam Geller's mother is a retired supermodel, his father a high-powered CEO.

King of the screwups by kl going