Boy Fights a Curse

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	• The Boy Who Lost His Face Louis Sachar Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2002 - 208 pages average customer review:based on 52 reviews view larger image
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Mom in Amherst

My daughter read this book to me and I couldn't wait to hear it every night. What an excellent, timeless story. I highly recommend it to anyone. It is a good selection for a middle schooler, girl or boy.

Boy Fights a Curse

David and Scott used to be best friends. Now that they are at the end of middle school, Scott has decided he wants to be a member of the cool crowd, to hang around with Randy and Roger and the prettiest girls. Scott starts acting like he doesn't really want David around, or telling David he has to do things to make him seem cooler. David doesn't want to lose Scott as a friend, so he tries to go along with Scott's new friends.

One afternoon Randy and Roger decide it would be funny to steal the cane from Mrs. Bayfield, a strange old lady who is said to be a witch. David goes along and mostly stands around while the other boys steal her cane, but she somehow focuses on him and speaks a curse before he leaves. He feels terribly guilty about what they have done, but soon he starts to realize that he is really cursed.

With the help of a couple of new friends, Larry and Mo, David tries to set his life straight. He needs to get rid of the curse and stop Scott and his new friends from harassing him. And most of all, he has to straighten things out so he can ask out Tori Williams, a pretty girl in his class.

I liked seeing a kid go through the process of losing a friend and having to make new friends. I think it happens often in middle school, and it was good to see it dealt with so well. I also liked how the story wrapped up and how David dealt with the curse and with his guilt. I especially liked the very last chapter which took place years later than the rest of the story.

I thought it was a little too simple that David would have been able to find new friends who became good friends so quickly. I also thought that Mrs. Bayfield seemed a little too forgiving, considering what had been done to her.

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