Summary
Leon Harris isn’t exceptional and he isn’t popular. He’s the kind of guy that peaked in middle school, when once upon a time he was in the “gifted” program and on the fast track to Ivy League glory.
Now, a high school senior, he’s a complete slacker who spends his time hanging out in a third-rate ice cream parlor with his best friend, Stan, a guy who (jokingly, Leon thinks) claims to be Satan. Committed to his sloth, Leon panics when he finds out that Anna, the love of his life aka mi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781481401036 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1481401033 |
| Author: | Adam Selzer |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2015 |
| Weight: | 261g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm x 23mm |
| Audience Age: | 14-99 |
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Critics Review
“It’s a mordantly funny story of a teenager bumbling headlong into love and sex while caught in high-school limbo, waiting for life to kick into gear.”
“It’s a mordantly funny story of a teenager bumbling headlong into love and sex while caught in high-school limbo, waiting for life to kick into gear.” * Publishers Weekly *
“An engaging, character-driven piece.” * Kirkus Reviews *
“Leon is a likable narrator full of real-world worries and flaws.” * School Library Journal *
“Timelessly true to life…A diabolically funny, slacker-makes-good coming-of-age story in the tradition of Rob Thomas’s Rats Saw God(1996).” * Booklist
“This coming-of-age story is hilariously subversive but also tender and poignant as Leon learns to have faith in himself again…This will be just the right book for those senior high students who love Seth McFarlane.” * VOYA Reviews, STARRED review *
“Play Me Backwards is the funniest, oh man…it is so freaking great.” - Josh Berk * Josh Berk, author of The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin *
About The Author
Adam Selzer
Adam Selzer lived in Des Moines back before it was cool, then tried out a series of small Georgia towns that will probably never be cool before settling in Chicago. In addition to several books on Chicago history and ghostlore, he’s the author of several young adult and middle grade novels, including Play Me Backwards, How To Get Suspended and Influence People (which is part of the ALA’s Banned Books Week packet), I Kissed a Zombie and I liked It, and Sparks (under the name SJ Adams, a Stonewall Honor book for 2013). He has seen Bob Dylan in concert more than forty times, holds a world record for “Most Richard Nixon jokes in a Children’s Book,” and often performs music, both solo and with various bands, at science fiction conventions.
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