A review by macfiar
The Next Great Paulie Fink by Ali Benjamin

4.0

Actual rating 3.5. This book was fun. New girl at school, missing classmate, goats, unconventional teaching. But the Main character is too narcissistic. After we find out that she was a bully at her last school, who relentlessly tormented another girl, it is difficult to divorce her from that. She never apologizes, just writes a letter that she won't send that is mostly about herself. The end was also too long and full of pithy sentiments about what she and the other kids learned from trying to find Paulie Fink. Although the main story was written as kids actually talk and think, the last 30 or so pages were pure adult wishful thinking.