I read an uncorrected advance proof of this book and just for the pictures sake wish I had read the final version. It was such a fun, cute read. The writing was very well done. There were all sorts of clever things - the approach of writing about starting Middle School from the kids perspective and having a documentary being made of them with excerpts of what they said to the filmers "off camera" was genius. Here was one of my favorite lines from the book: "...he looked over at [her] and noticed a slight smile forming on her face, and he also noticed the heavy blue eyeliner on her ocean-colored eyes. More Atlantic than Pacific, but still...quite blue."Definitely worth a read. Trevor Jones is not what you'd call a normal school kid. In fact, to call him that would be like calling Pluto Jupiter. His attention deficit, nervous worrying disorder, and complete reliance on his best friend Libby don't help him at all as he attempts to enter Seventh Grade. This book follows Trevor's humorous misadventures as he attempts to control his wildly rampant ADHD, find new friends, get a date to the dance, and avoid the sinister machinations of the school bully.If you ever want to see what it's like to have ADHD without actually having it, read this book. I personally, found it agonizingly random. While I'm sure many would find Trevor's antics amusing, his haphazard and pinball-esque narration tended to give me headaches if I read it for more than ten minutes straight. The layout of the book is rather creative, with insight into the characters' thoughts broadcasted by drawings taken from the character's notebooks and interviews with many of them about recent events, although it does seem to draw heavily from the style of How to Train Your Dragon, the Diary of a Nerdy Kid, and others. Had the narration been less seizure-inducing, I would have enjoyed this book.
