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A review by bickie
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer by Lamar Giles
4.0
Great adventure featuring two Black 11-year-old boys on bikes and their rivals/collaborators, twin Black girls. I loved Otto and Sheed's belief in themselves, creative problem-solving, and deductive reasoning. I also loved the good messages about how to be in the world. The "clock-watcher" characters made me think a bit about The Phantom Tollbooth.
I really wish the book did not start with an opening that included a comment about how "everyone knows" that there are no holidays between Labor Day and Halloween. Hello, Jewish high holidays!
There are a lot of references to the boys' past exploits (and the girls'), which helped put their current adventure in context though did not provide enough details for people thinking it might have been a part of a series. Maybe if we're lucky, it will become a series!
Ruffin Prentiss III's narration is great, with slightly different voices for the key characters and terrific enunciation and modulation. Although occasionally a little bit slow, the pace was perfect to provide time to process the unusual and unexpected events.
I really wish the book did not start with an opening that included a comment about how "everyone knows" that there are no holidays between Labor Day and Halloween. Hello, Jewish high holidays!
There are a lot of references to the boys' past exploits (and the girls'), which helped put their current adventure in context though did not provide enough details for people thinking it might have been a part of a series. Maybe if we're lucky, it will become a series!
Ruffin Prentiss III's narration is great, with slightly different voices for the key characters and terrific enunciation and modulation. Although occasionally a little bit slow, the pace was perfect to provide time to process the unusual and unexpected events.