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Space Station Seventh Grade: The Newbery Award-Winning Author of Maniac Magee
Space Station Seventh Grade: The Newbery Award-Winning Author of Maniac Magee
Space Station Seventh Grade: The Newbery Award-Winning Author of Maniac Magee
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Space Station Seventh Grade: The Newbery Award-Winning Author of Maniac Magee

Written by Jerry Spinelli

Narrated by Johnny Heller

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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About this audiobook

For Jason, entering the seventh grade is like walking into a dangerous new world. Now that he's in junior high school, he's a small fish in a big pond stocked full of ninth-graders. It's so scary that he won't even go to the bathroom if there's a ninth-grader in there-no matter how badly he has to go! But it isn't all bad. He's working on a model space station in shop class, and he's beginning to notice things he never paid attention to before, like body hair-and girls. Especially one girl: the beautiful, hair-flicking cheerleader Debbie Breen. This wonderfully realistic audiobook, written by Newbery Award-winning author Jerry Spinelli, attracts teen-aged readers with its combination of honesty and embarrassingly funny situations familiar to every teenager. Johnny Heller captures Jason's emotional roller coaster ride as his boggled mind tries to keep pace with his friends, family, school, and his changing body.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 11, 2014
ISBN9781490638973
Space Station Seventh Grade: The Newbery Award-Winning Author of Maniac Magee
Author

Jerry Spinelli

Jerry Spinelli received the Newbery Medal for Maniac Magee and a Newbery Honor for Wringer. His other books include Stargirl; Love, Stargirl; Smiles to Go; Loser; Jake and Lily; Hokey Pokey; and The Warden’s Daughter. His novels are recognized for their humor and poignancy, and his characters and situations are often drawn from his real-life experience as a father of six children. Jerry lives with his wife, Eileen, also a writer, in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Just catching up on Spinelli. I bet this was challenged by a few righteous conservatives back in the day. Now, to me, it comes off as a little dated, and a little trying-too-hard.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This is Diary of a Wimpy Kid in prose rather than comics, and a more vulgar version. While Jason Herkimer & Greg Heffley of "Wimpy Kid" have similar self-absorbed attitudes and behaviors, Jason has an inkling of a conscience and is subtly maturing, while Greg Heffley stays true to his obnoxious self. The subject matter is always light in Wimpy Kid, while this novel does gently poke into some serious subject matter. Two scenes made me laugh, one with gut-busting laughter (the home-economics teacher)and one a chuckle.

    The speaker is crude; there are quite a few profanities (real ones) in this book, which I appreciated because it made it realistic, but Spinelli, in doing so, perhaps dated the book so as to turn off future teenage audiences. I'm worried about the protagonist's reference to "grown ups", his "cootyhead sister", and his insults which range from "hemorrhoid head," to "pissant" because one thing you can count on with middle-schoolers is that they are very particular about their expressions. I'm not sure my kids ever refer to adults as "grownups" and they are definitely too old for "cootyhead." I'm afraid that little things like this will turn my kids off early into the novel, prompting them to turn their nose up to Jason as a dork, but I'm not sure....

    I'll let you know after I have a kid actually read it. It's a bit long (which is a sad thing to say, I know) and therefore will intimidate the type of immature students who would be the ideal audience. I've purchased a copy 3 times and 3 times it's disappeared, which could be a good sign or perhaps just a result of a student borrowing it, reading 1 word, and leaving it in the cafeteria or his locker for the next year, where it would ultimately end up in the trash.

    I predict that my "Marcelines" would never be interested in this boy nonsense.

    Overall, I recommend this to 6th & 7th graders only (8th would be too old), and be worried about the parents picking it up and scanning it.


  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Eh. As a first novel, it wasn't bad. I liked the very frank way he dealt with bodies and the anxiety associated with them, but other than that mostly forgettable. What he was able to accomplish later in his career makes it even harder to like this one, though.