into the wild nerd yonder by julie halpern

Halpern is totally a new favorite writer of mine. Then the little summary on the inside flap. I picked out this novel at a local bookstore simply because the cover caught my eye. I wish the writer had gone through one more round of revisions with the second half - I think it could have easily been better and stronger. It's not that I didn't like Dottie or Henry but I just didn't feel very connected to them. showed up I kind of had the remaining plot and resolution drafted in my head. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Into the Wild Nerd Yonder written by Julie Halpern which was published in September 29th 2009. With Bizza and Char I really didn't know what was going to happen. Brief Summary of Book: Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern. I was a bit less interested in the book once the D&D crowd became her friends because I felt like it became much more predictable at that point. I loved Barrett and I was glad they actually had a great relationship, even though that didn't always seem realistic. I found it really easy to make connections to Jessie's experiences, even though I am 10 years out of high school.

I thought the friendship dilemma that drove much of the first half of the book was very real and I was interested, as a reader, to see how Jessie would solve a problem that, I think, all of us have faced at some point.

And I thought the storytelling was so fluid that it often felt like I was there, watching her and her friends/family interact. I thought her observations were often funny and very honest. etina (cs) Deutsch (de) English (en) Español (es). Julie Halpern, who is a local writer, did such a great job of creating this really insightful and quite complex, but also very vulnerable character who seemed so incredibly real. Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern, Apr 12, 2011, Square Fish edition, paperback. Jessie and her brother Barrett are sort of etched in my brain now and I wish I knew them in real life. I really loved the character development throughout.

I liked this - a lot - but I thought the first half was stronger than the second.

Into the wild nerd yonder by julie halpern