A review by shighley
Get Me out of Here! by James Patterson, James Patterson

3.0

I understand what Patterson and the others are trying to do here: make a book that is appealing to middle school students. I'm rating this for myself, but know that the students at my school love these. They talk about how funny they are, when the first word that comes to my mind is "sad". Poor Rafe has gone through so much, and when he finally gets a friend, well, let's just say Matty is not the ideal friend. A few things really bothered me: Rafe ends up breaking many rules, perhaps laws, and a big secret is kept from him, which I think is very unrealistic. I like the fact that there are some teachers again who go to bat for him, and I like the idea of "getting a life". The audio is pretty well done.