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Something Wiki by Suzanne Sutherland
4.0
I recieved an ARC of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
Jo is twelve, going on thirteen, and in the throes of all the adolescent horribleness that is attendant upon that age. At least she has a cool older brother to look up to and three good friends to struggle through with. Or she did, until one of her friends accuses her of writing something rude on her locker and then gleefully snubs her, dragging Jo's very best friend Stacy along with her and away from Jo when Jo thinks she needs her most. Because Jo's brother Zim (short for Zimmerman, as in Bob Dylan), is moving home with his unexpectedly pregnant girlfriend, Jennifer. If the friendship splitting and the family merging wasn't bad enough, Jo's fighting the demon of adolescence, combination acne. To comfort herself, she makes small edits on Wikipedia pages, using the world's encyclopedia as her confessional and diary.
I adored parts of this book. The ruthlessness and social climbing that can happen among teenagers was written well, along with the complicated relationship Jo has with her family, both blood and not. But the wikipedia parts, while I saw they related to the following section of text, were things I usually skipped over in my desire to read more of Jo's story. I would definitely suggest this to kids who are having a rough go of it with friendships, and possibly put it on reading lists for friendship/bullying/social circle issues.
Jo is twelve, going on thirteen, and in the throes of all the adolescent horribleness that is attendant upon that age. At least she has a cool older brother to look up to and three good friends to struggle through with. Or she did, until one of her friends accuses her of writing something rude on her locker and then gleefully snubs her, dragging Jo's very best friend Stacy along with her and away from Jo when Jo thinks she needs her most. Because Jo's brother Zim (short for Zimmerman, as in Bob Dylan), is moving home with his unexpectedly pregnant girlfriend, Jennifer. If the friendship splitting and the family merging wasn't bad enough, Jo's fighting the demon of adolescence, combination acne. To comfort herself, she makes small edits on Wikipedia pages, using the world's encyclopedia as her confessional and diary.
I adored parts of this book. The ruthlessness and social climbing that can happen among teenagers was written well, along with the complicated relationship Jo has with her family, both blood and not. But the wikipedia parts, while I saw they related to the following section of text, were things I usually skipped over in my desire to read more of Jo's story. I would definitely suggest this to kids who are having a rough go of it with friendships, and possibly put it on reading lists for friendship/bullying/social circle issues.