Review: With a light touch, Berenson tackles preteen challenges...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 30, 2013
Another winner from Berenson.Billy, the main character, falls hard for the hottest girl in middle school.  But she's already got a dude and he is the school thug. So, Billy devises a plan to become the baddest dude in school--and catch her eye and her heart in the process.~sigh~ Who hasn't been there? Middle school,and you want to be cool. You want to fit in,. You want to be popular. And there's so much pressure to do all those things. Add to that the yearnings of preteen infatuation, and what follows? Really bad decisions can get made.Berenson infuses humor into his writing, but at the same time, approaches some really good life's lessons best learned young. He touches on the themes of: be yourself, reputations, and beauty really is only skin deep.Excellent reading material for preteens.