Beat the Band by Don Calame
Published by Templar
In this sequel to SWIM THE FLY, told from Coop’s point of view, it’s the beginning of the school year, and the tenth-grade health class must work in pairs on semester-long projects. Matt and Sean get partnered up (the jerks), but Coop is matched with the infamous "Hot Dog" Helen for a presentation on safe sex. Everybody’s laughing, except for Coop, who’s convinced that the only way to escape this social death sentence is to win "The Battle of the Bands" with their group, Arnold Murphy’s Bologna Dare. There’s just one problem: none of the guys actually plays an instrument. Will Coop regain his "cool" before it’s too late? Or will the forced one-on-one time with Helen teach him a lesson about social status he never saw coming?
Beat the Band was exactly what I was expecting after reading Swim the Fly last year. It's crude, funny and a better insight into the brain of a teenage boy that I probably needed!
The bos are back and on form. They manage to muddle themselves through a series of madcap events from coop having to join up with a social outcast to do a class presentation on contraception to them 3 boys entering a battle of the bands competition despite the fact they can't actually play any instruments.
I actually loved Coop's dad in this book and the way in which he used the boys mad-cap plans as an excuse to relive his teenage years again. I loved how he probably got more carried away than way the boys did and loved every minute of it.
The relationship that was built up between Coop and Helen was awesome. I love how Coop did that proper teenage booy thing of pretending not to like the girl who no one else likes in a bid to to look cool even though secretly he really started to fall for her.
If I'm honest I think I prefered Swim the Fly purely because I think I liked Matt as character more that Cooper who is a bit too crude (even though he has that sweet edge) for my liking.
An entertaining laugh out loud read which I enjoyed.
Published by Templar
In this sequel to SWIM THE FLY, told from Coop’s point of view, it’s the beginning of the school year, and the tenth-grade health class must work in pairs on semester-long projects. Matt and Sean get partnered up (the jerks), but Coop is matched with the infamous "Hot Dog" Helen for a presentation on safe sex. Everybody’s laughing, except for Coop, who’s convinced that the only way to escape this social death sentence is to win "The Battle of the Bands" with their group, Arnold Murphy’s Bologna Dare. There’s just one problem: none of the guys actually plays an instrument. Will Coop regain his "cool" before it’s too late? Or will the forced one-on-one time with Helen teach him a lesson about social status he never saw coming?
Beat the Band was exactly what I was expecting after reading Swim the Fly last year. It's crude, funny and a better insight into the brain of a teenage boy that I probably needed!
The bos are back and on form. They manage to muddle themselves through a series of madcap events from coop having to join up with a social outcast to do a class presentation on contraception to them 3 boys entering a battle of the bands competition despite the fact they can't actually play any instruments.
I actually loved Coop's dad in this book and the way in which he used the boys mad-cap plans as an excuse to relive his teenage years again. I loved how he probably got more carried away than way the boys did and loved every minute of it.
The relationship that was built up between Coop and Helen was awesome. I love how Coop did that proper teenage booy thing of pretending not to like the girl who no one else likes in a bid to to look cool even though secretly he really started to fall for her.
If I'm honest I think I prefered Swim the Fly purely because I think I liked Matt as character more that Cooper who is a bit too crude (even though he has that sweet edge) for my liking.
An entertaining laugh out loud read which I enjoyed.
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