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“ Reviewed by Michaela Pallante aka "Mickey" for TeensReadToo.com
TeensReadToo.com wrote this review Thursday, July 23 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Leon and his friends have a problem.
Just as they are assigned to come up with a monument for their gifted pool group, they learn a terrible truth. Their favorite coffee shop, Sip, could be going out of business.
Sip has been struggling against its big corporate competitor, Wackfords, another coffee chain downtown, and it's quickly losing the battle.
Leon and his friends don't like this and decide to take matters into their own hands. With some help from the Wackfords manager (who is surprisingly like Leon and his friends) they form a plan to save Sip.
However, you know what they say about even the best laid plans....
This book is smart and very, very funny. Readers will love going through this fight with Leon and find him as easy to relate to as a best friend.
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“I liked that Adam again nailed that whole "too smart for their own good" gifted pool culture (especially how the gym teacher was convinced it had to be one of them that was sending him depressing poetry), but even though I kinda thought the students were individually amusing, I didn't have much personal attachment to any of them. I was also kinda surprised that even the "BRING DOWN ALL THINGS CAPITALIST" Communist of the group didn't think it was a little tame to take over a coffeeshop with express permission and help from two of the workers. In the last book about Leon, his dad's wacky inventions somehow tied into the plot, whereas in this one Leon's dad kept up his harebrained ideas in such a way that it made me feel there wasn't much of a clearly-defined reason for him to be in the book as much as he was. I did chuckle at the literary references and I did appreciate that a lot of "bohemian" and "alternative" culture was given a nod in this book, but I often felt that these bits felt a little randomly inserted. Perhaps this was intentional since kids Leon's age often do sort of latch onto an aspect of culture and define themselves by it for a while as they learn to understand it. And finally, I was a little disappointed in Leon for having a main motivation of wanting to impress Anna. Sure he LIKED being a "pirate," but he committed to the idea when he felt it would make Anna think he was revolutionary enough. I would have liked some revelation of Leon's embracing of the cause for the cause's sake at some point. I'll wrap up by saying it held my attention and that the dialogue is well-written!”
swankivy wrote this review Wednesday, January 21 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Terrific! I think it might be easier to understand if I read the first book and then this one, though...”
Cap'n Crunch wrote this review Wednesday, July 2 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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