A review by jwmcoaching
Loser by Jerry Spinelli

4.0

This is such a sweet novel with a lot of heart about the weird, fraught gap between childhood and adulthood and what it means to navigate it while also figuring out who you are. Spinelli can come up with some great descriptions ("a brick and hoagie town") to go with his deeply human characters. It's such a clever premise to portray events from the perspective of a so-called loser and then force the question of who the real losers are here.