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The Boys’ Club by Amanda Swift
Sep. 15th, 2007 12:28 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
Joe is twelve and VERY worried about girls. Girls turn boys into dribbling wrecks. Girls make you ditch football practice and your mates to go snogging in their bedrooms for hours. Joe knows. He's seen it happen to his brother.
Joe wants none of it. And he doesn't want his friends to change either. So he comes up with the Boys' Club: a top-secret organisation where boys can be boys and girls have NOTHING to do with them. But in reality life's a little more complicated than that - and things do change. And, with the arrival of Alex, a new face around school, Joe's life is about to change more than most ...
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
It's a shame that the book doesn't explore the possible gay angle more because that was the obvious thing that came to my mind. But this is nevertheless an enjoyable story, one likely to appeal to 9 or 10 year olds and there's some good humour in it.
Joe is twelve and VERY worried about girls. Girls turn boys into dribbling wrecks. Girls make you ditch football practice and your mates to go snogging in their bedrooms for hours. Joe knows. He's seen it happen to his brother.
Joe wants none of it. And he doesn't want his friends to change either. So he comes up with the Boys' Club: a top-secret organisation where boys can be boys and girls have NOTHING to do with them. But in reality life's a little more complicated than that - and things do change. And, with the arrival of Alex, a new face around school, Joe's life is about to change more than most ...
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
It's a shame that the book doesn't explore the possible gay angle more because that was the obvious thing that came to my mind. But this is nevertheless an enjoyable story, one likely to appeal to 9 or 10 year olds and there's some good humour in it.
