There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom - Softcover

Sachar, Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394805720 ISBN 13: 9780394805726

Publisher: Yearling Books, 1994

Synopsis

Winner of 17 Children's Choice Awards nationwide, here is Louis Sachar's
most beloved novel. "A humorous and immensely appealing story...Readers are
likely to come away with the sense that they've been rooting for themselves
too"-- "Kirkus."
An IRA/CBC Children's Choice

About this title

Review

There are so many ways that a boy like Bradley Chalkers can humiliate himself at school. Most of them are explored by the hero of There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, a story of isolation, bravery and gradual acceptance told with great humour by Louis Sachar, the author of the brilliant Holes.

Bradley is the only one in Mrs Ebbels class without a gold star next to his name on the wall chart. He doesn't have any friends and that's the way he likes it. Nobody wants to sit next to him at the back of the class, until Jeff Fishkin starts school. At the same time Carla, the new school counsellor shows Bradley that with a huge amount of courage and a bit of self-belief he can break the repetitive cycle of heartbreaking rejection by his peers, disappointment from family and weary indifference from teachers.

Bradley has a long road to travel with the help of his new friends but the resultant changes aren't pious or predictable but slow, painful and humorous. The witty, thoughtful exchanges between Bradley and Carla are exceptionally well written and the slow and delicate process of building trust is completely believable. A touching, warm and funny tale with no saccachrine aftertaste. --Rachel Ediss

Review

"A humorous and immensely appealing story...Readers are likely to come away with the sense that they've been rooting for themselves too"--Kirkus.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yearling Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0394805720
• ISBN 13: 9780394805726
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224