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Markus Zusak
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The Underdog |
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English |
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Paperback |
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1999 |
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1862914133 |
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Scholastic Australia |
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Marianne (Australia) (2012/09/17):
The Underdog is the first in the Wolfe Brothers series by Australian author, Markus Zusak. Cameron Wolfe, aged fifteen, knows he is a dirty boy. After all, “….. all young boys are pretty disgusting, like beasts. Maybe the challenge was to somehow rise above it…..” Cameron is a bit of a loner: he and his brother Ruben keep getting themselves into trouble, Cameron has a bit of sense (but not a lot), he doesn’t have a girl (his hair is thick any furry and sticks up every which way). When he meets Rebecca Conlon, he’s hoping he can be “nice and respectable instead of purely lustful and terrible”. He’s hoping for a chance. Zusak has created a great set of characters in the Wolfe family: through Cameron’s 15 year-old eyes, we see a family that cares about its members, and we see Cameron maturing through ordinary events in everyday life. Zusak’s format is 14 chapters of Cameron’s narration told in an authentic teenage voice. Each chapter ends in a dream Cameron has had, some bizarre, some obviously related to events in his life. Cameron says in the first chapter that not a whole lot happens in the story: perhaps he is right, but by the time the last chapter is reached, most readers will want more of the Wolfe family. Luckily, there are two more in the series. Excellent early Zusak.
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