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Return to Augie Hobble, by Lane Smith
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Augie Hobble lives in a fairy tale―or at least Fairy Tale Place, the down-on-its-luck amusement park managed by his father. Yet his life is turning into a nightmare: he's failed creative arts and has to take summer school, the girl he has a crush on won't acknowledge him, and Hogg Wills and the school bullies won't leave him alone. Worse, a succession of mysterious, possibly paranormal, events have him convinced that he's turning into a werewolf. At least Augie has his notebook and his best friend Britt to confide in―until the unthinkable happens and Augie's life is turned upside down, and those mysterious, possibly paranormal, events take on a different meaning.
Return to Augie Hobble, by Lane Smith- Amazon Sales Rank: #508178 in Books
- Brand: Smith, Lane
- Published on: 2015-05-05
- Released on: 2015-05-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.93" h x 1.05" w x 6.34" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
From School Library Journal Gr 4–6—Smith's first novel begins with a scattered and zany atmosphere. That's entirely appropriate, given its setting at a struggling New Mexico amusement park. It may, however, present as much of a problem in attracting and retaining readers as Fairy Tale Place has in luring in customers. Augie's failed his Creative Arts class at the aptly named Gerald R. Ford Middle School and must complete a project over the summer. His story is interspersed with his cartoon ideas for the assignment, which make it clear that Augie lacks decisiveness more than creativity. These pieces, along with frequent insertions of Smith's illustrations, break up the text in ways which will appeal to kids who enjoy art-heavy, journal-form novels. About a quarter of the way through, intersections of the folkloric and the paranormal combine to give a more coherent direction to the narrative, despite our view through the scrim of implausibility. Werewolves, UFOs, and communications from the world beyond are prominently featured, but it's the fate of Augie's best friend and Augie's struggle to cope with responsibility for it that deepen the book and make it more touching than it initially seems. VERDICT Readers who persevere through the broad comedy will find a story with heart within.—Miriam Lang Budin, Chappaqua Library, NY
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“Does an impeccable job of introducing heartbreak while keeping the mood light.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Great fun, with hardly a trope or theme left unspun.” ―Kirkus, starred review
“Smith huffs and puffs and blows the roof off his first novel. . . Bravo!” ―Booklist, starred review
“Like the late comic master Terry Pratchett, Smith knows how to make profound points lightly as he holds a funhouse mirror to the larger world.” ―The Washington Post
“An emotionally resonant reflection on friendship and loss.” ―BCCB
“This unusual, ultimately exultant story is tinged with the supernatural and heartbreaking at its core.” ―The Wall Street Journal
“The incomparable Lane Smith stomps triumphantly into the middle school playground with his first novel.” ―The New York Times Book Review
About the Author Lane Smith is a four-time recipient of the New York Times Best Illustrated Book award and a two-time Caldecott Honor recipient, most recently for Grandpa Green. He is the author and illustrator of Abe Lincoln's Dream and It's a Book, which has been translated into more than twenty languages, among many other books.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Funny, Ambitious, Strange, Wise and Touching By Pop Bop This is a marvelous and remarkable novel, and if you'll bear with me for a moment I'll tell you why I think that.It starts out on a very predictable path as a summer school-daze middle grade comedy. Augie works at the family fairy tale themed amusement park, which is a bit worn out around the edges. Augie is a perceptive and good-humored kid for the most part. He's observant and as a narrator he's given to wry, deadpan and cleverly humorous asides. Mom and Dad are pretty together, Augie's best friend is a funny wise-acre, and the park employees are quirky, decent and fun. There are lots of very funny jokes and puns built around the park and its guests, and once we add a school bully and a possible love interest it seems that this book is going to just wander down a predictable, but still entertaining path, to a mellow pre-ordained upbeat conclusion.That's where you would be wrong, because about one-quarter of the way in the book goes off the standard-middle-grade-comedy rails and at the half-way point we are well into an X-Files/magical realism/problem novel realm that you would never have seen coming.MILD SPOILERS. At first it just looks like Augie's suspicions that things are amiss in "Fairy Tale Place" are a clever way to highlight or represent the challenges and insecurities that go with being a middle grader. But then we drift into concrete instances of something more than nerves and an overactive imagination being at work. Then a tragic event comes out of nowhere, and Augie has to come to grips with his "guilt" and his need for "punishment". Things get weirder and we go deeper into the rabbit hole before Augie finds the way out, the mundane and the fantastic mysteries are sorted out, and Augie is set back on the path of reality a sadder, wiser, older, but still funny, and re-energized, kid.There is so much going on here, and it is handled with a light touch, a fast pace, and just a tremendous store of knowing grace and generosity on the author's part. Augie is a wonderfully appealing and decent and authentic hero, and every single character ends up with exactly what he or she deserves. The book feels sort of leisurely and scattered, but that is deceptive. It actually zips along as a middle grade read, is tightly plotted, and doesn't waste a line or a scene.The upshot is that this book works as a tale that suggests real depth of feeling, but it also works as just a funny fantastic tale. You can read it to be entertained or to be intrigued or just to enjoy the snappy dialogue and funny set pieces. A book that works on so many levels for middle grade readers of greatly varying confidence and understanding is a real find, and one I am happy to encourage you, intrepid browser, to sample.Please note that I received a free advance ecopy of this book in exchange for a candid review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Unrealized Potential and Lack of Direction in RETURN TO AUGIE HOBBLE By KidsReads RETURN TO AUGIE HOBBLE by Lane Smith follows Augie Hobble, a young man who has some attention problems and whose family runs a fairy tale theme park full of strange goings-on. It's a nice setup, the conflict rather immediate and compelling: Augie is having trouble with bullies and having trouble in school. Plus, he's not alone --- his best friend, Britt, is also being bullied, and Augie struggles with whether to stand up for himself or for his friend.While RETURN TO AUGIE HOBBLE is full of potential, I think that the potential is mostly unrealized. The writing is charming enough and the characters are interesting, if a bit predictable. Augie's voice is interesting, smooth, a little bit twisted and funny; and the setting is certainly entertaining and original. However, the plot that weaves it all together is a bit of a mess and the work as a whole suffers from a lack of direction and momentum.I felt like RETURN TO AUGIE HOBBLE couldn’t quite decide what it wants to be. It starts out with Augie having to work on a replacement Creative Arts project after failing on his first attempt. Augie bounces around a huge number of ideas that would pass, but he doesn’t have the confidence to choose one. The book takes a rather abrupt and tragic shift, though, without any real warning. And another. And another. From bullying and school to werewolves and government conspiracies to death and grief and guilt to ghosts and finally back to bullies, with a few daring-dos thrown in for good measure, the book quickly loses sight of what it was trying to do.Not that the different styles and focuses are bad. There are a few quite poignant moments that Smith works into the book, along with some stunning visuals and funny scenes and lines. But for all the marks it hits, it misses more. For all the humor and charm, it's cut and limited by confusion and jarring shifts. Plots that had been simmering throughout the book suddenly flare and die only to be replaced by completely new ideas. It's like the book is mirroring Augie's inability to focus on any one thing. That would be an interesting way to read the story if it were intentional, but as it stands, there's nothing to suggest that the book is meant to be read that way. Instead it comes off as more unpolished, more accidentally garbled.Really, RETURN TO AUGIE HOBBLE is a book with a lot going on. Some of it is compelling and done well, but too much is too confusing and muddied to provide much of a satisfying reading experience. There is fun to be had in reading RETURN TO AUGIE HOBBLE, but I found the jumbled style to be more distracting than captivating.Reviewed by Charles Payseur
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Just finished this novel and loved it! It is true to Lane's other successes ... By Serra Nicolette Just finished this novel and loved it! This book just like Lane's many other successes is filled with quirky characters, great illlustrations, and a story that it truly written for middle schoolers! It is hard to find books for boys in middle school - one that will keep their attention, interested, but still has a message, and this one is it! I love that it does talk about so many issues that middle school children do deal with on a daily basis, but still has that element of fantasy too. What a great summer read! Can't wait to hear what my students think of it when school starts!
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