king dork klein andromeda

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Andromeda Klein
Frank Portman

Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2009

Andromeda Klein is a quiet, booky girl with an unexciting life. Until her world takes a turn for the weird. Strangely and suddenly Andromeda?s tarot card readings have begun to predict events with bizarrely literal accuracy. It seems impossible, but it looks like her once-upon-a-time-partner-inoccultism, Daisy Wasserstrom, has begun to harass her. Which wouldn?t be quite as strange if Daisy hadn?t died the year before. But what is weird is ...

King Dork

77 reviews
Frank Portman

Listening Library, 2006

Brilliantly subversive
King Dork is far superior to most of what passes for literary fiction today, and it perfectly captures the voice of a boy in early adolescence and the high school milieu. What makes it particularly satisfying, however, is the way it absolutely skewers the pieties of the baby-boom generation, albeit mostly with gentle good humor. To wit: "In the end, though, the attempt to save the world by ...