A review by bickie
Boys Don't Knit by T.S. Easton

3.0

Ben has a group of friends who don't always make the best choices, but he often goes along with them anyway. One caper involving stolen liquor and a crossing guard run over by a bike results in Ben's mistakenly being labeled a troublemaker. His state-imposed punishment is to write in a journal (what we are reading), do some community service (with the lady who was run over), and take up a hobby (not interested in Dad's car mechanic class). Due to another misunderstanding, Ben ends up in knitting class instead of ceramics, and finds to his surprise that not only is he good at it, but it's actually a competitive sport. Lots of laughs as we follow Ben's year of atonement and struggles to be himself in a sometimes unfriendly world. Best for high schoolers and precocious middle schoolers. Parents engage in sexual innuendo, which Ben finds totally inappropriate; Ben fantasizes about a "hot" teacher; the liquor (Martini Rosso) is stolen in order to bring the requisite bottle each to a party at a popular person's house.