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biblioberuthiel 's review for:
Mr. Terupt Falls Again
by Rob Buyea
This book is fine. It continues to do some things well that the first book introduces like humanizing every character regardless of their differing opinions and personalities.
A couple of suspect things:
1)It's weirdly racist about Natives, though (sort of) redeems itself in the end. One character's family is engaged in a legal battle over land they have "owned" for generations which the Native people in the area are trying to reclaim as their own. This is kind of the point (that the character is showing prejudice and then learning from it), but, to me, it doesn't quite make it all the way around to not being vaguely racist. (She uses the term "Indians" repeatedly).
2) Mr. Terupt is super inappropriate and would DEFINITELY be fired. I get that that isn't the point of the book and it's supposed to be all kinds of heartwarming, but it has the potential to give kids a weird idea of the kinds of relationships they should have with teachers. He gives students rides, spends time with them outside of school, and gets involved in their personal lives (and vice versa). I'm not saying this makes the book horrifying or this is incredibly dangerous, but it does have many things that could give a child the idea that these behaviors are normal when they actually could be more sinister in real life.
A couple of suspect things:
1)It's weirdly racist about Natives, though (sort of) redeems itself in the end. One character's family is engaged in a legal battle over land they have "owned" for generations which the Native people in the area are trying to reclaim as their own. This is kind of the point (that the character is showing prejudice and then learning from it), but, to me, it doesn't quite make it all the way around to not being vaguely racist. (She uses the term "Indians" repeatedly).
2) Mr. Terupt is super inappropriate and would DEFINITELY be fired. I get that that isn't the point of the book and it's supposed to be all kinds of heartwarming, but it has the potential to give kids a weird idea of the kinds of relationships they should have with teachers. He gives students rides, spends time with them outside of school, and gets involved in their personal lives (and vice versa). I'm not saying this makes the book horrifying or this is incredibly dangerous, but it does have many things that could give a child the idea that these behaviors are normal when they actually could be more sinister in real life.