A Year in the Life of a Complete and Total Genius (The Arthur Bean Stories, 1)

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I loved this book! It was so cute! Little Arthur Bean just tells it like it he sees it. He doesn't care, that's how he sees it and that's how it is. The whole story is told by reports, journal entries, essays, and school projects. He writes about everything he feels in his reading journal. Little does he know that he has to turn in that reading journal at the end of the year. He wants to write for the newspaper, but is constantly being told that he needs to look for the good in what he is covering. He also uses this chance to get back at his arch nemesis, Robbie Zack. He does not like Robbie and that is putting it mildly. Robbie is always picking on Arthur. Whether he is tripping him or spitting on his paperwork or just doing the normal things the bigger boys do to the littler boys in class, Robbie is doing it. When Ms. Whitehead decides that Arthur needs to tutor Robbie one day a week after school, oh the boys are not happy. The notes they turn in to Ms. Whitehead regarding their progress are hilarious. I got a lot of chuckles out of this book and felt a little pity for Arthur as well. This is definitely one that I highly recommend. Kids will love it and so will adults. It will be great for everyone on your Christmas list!! Thanks Sourcebooks and Net Galley for providing me with this free e-galley in exchange for an honest review. I hadn't laughed so much in a long time!

I totally loved this book! Written in the form of 13 year old Arthur's Reading Journal, school newspaper articles, e-mails to Kennedy, his writing partner who he has a crush on, and his notes about tutoring Robbie, his nemesis, the story is simple to read in short bursts. I like the teacher's responses to some of his writing attempts and the cartoon illustrations. I enjoyed the book so much that I read parts of it aloud to my husband and daughter who also thought it was hilarious. Throughout the book, Arthur is also dealing with his mother's death and his father's sadness and the general life of a 7th grader. I received this book free to review from Netgalley and I highly recommend it!

Middle school students will be able to relate to this book. Humorous and fun to read.

A Year in The Life of a Complete and Total Genius is a touching book to many groups of people, following the story and the perspective of a recently motherless child who believes he is a genius, known as a boy who knits, in a new school via the writing he writes and receives. The child, Arthur Bean, enters a writing competition wanting to prove he is a creative genius, meeting people like his writing partner/ crush Kennedy and his tutee/ bully Robbie. With them enacting plays, writing stories, and bonding with them. With the journey of 7th grade of a boy with small beginnings. :)

SUMMARY: "Arthur Bean is a genius. It’s just that no one else realizes this quite yet." Arthur hopes to make it big by winning this year's writing contest. But too many problems get in his way. He make some poor choices that land him in trouble. But by the end of the school year, he has learned a thing or two and maybe even made a new friend. This book is written completely in the form of letters, emails, school assignments, and journal entries. THE GOOD: By using the writing formats instead of a typical novel there is added interest to the book. There is lots of humor throughout the book and Arthur learns to look at people differently by getting to know them better instead of just judging them based on what he sees on the surface. Arthur is going through some tough stuff and makes poor choices because of it, but his writing helps him to process these hardships and helps him feel better about things. THE NOT AS GOOD: When I started reading the book, I really liked the format with the journal entries, notes, emails, etc., but the addition of the regular teacher's assignments began to bog down the story. I felt the book would have been better off without the assignments (in very full detail) or with fewer ones. They lend too much seriousness to the story and slows it down. By the end of the book I did not feel I really knew Arthur deep down as much as I would have liked. He's very sarcastic, he plagiarizes, he likes one girl in particular, but who is he really? This book is from his perspective about himself and he thinks he's pretty awesome. AGE RECOMMENDATION: Grades 5-8 NOTE: I received a free ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This book is a really good book for all ages and is hilarious. I read it for school I had allot of choices to choose from and I picked this one. It also has a cool format that is different from your everyday chapter book. You will love this book when you read it.

Loved this book! For one, it was written in a different format than other books with journal entries and writing assignments. I also found the detail of character development over the course of a year engaging, thoughtful, realistic and humorous.

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What a great book! I am an adult and had many laugh out loud moments! I highly recommend this book for kids and adults alike! Very cleverly written and put together!

It was awesome this book !!!! I really liked was really funny . Was amost the funniest book I've ever read . LOL Thank's Stacey Matson for this PERFECT book and this cute cover ! Yours truly A girl in the world :)

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