The Misfits is a uniquely written novel.Why do you think the author chose the character of Bobby Goodspeed to tell the story of The Misfits? Could you see another character narrating the novel instead? How would the novel be different with another narrator? How is Bobby wise beyond his years?.Finally, they are going to stand up and be seen-not as the one-word jokes their classmates have tried to reduce them to, but as the full, complicated human beings they are just beginning to discover they truly are.

After years of insults, the Gang of Five is determined to stop name-calling at their school. It’s a year in which they learn about politics and popularity, love and loss, and what it means to be a misfit.

Starting with Addie’s refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance and her insistence on creating a new political party to run for student council, the Gang of Five, as the four friends call themselves, is in for the year of their lives. And surviving seventh grade looks like it’s not going to be easy. They’re used to being called names, but they know they’re better than the names they’re called.īesides, they’ve always had each other when times got tough. « “Howe tells the truth about the pain and anger caused by jeers and name-calling in a fast, funny, tender story that will touch readers.” - Booklist, starred reviewīobby, Skeezie, Addie, and Joe are “the misfits.” Bobby is fat. An upbeat and reassuring novel that encourages preteens and teens to celebrate their individuality.” - Publishers Weekly

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. He does not know where his imagination will take him in the next thirty-plus years, but he is looking forward to finding out. He is especially proud of The Misfits, which inspired national No Name-Calling Week ( and its sequel Totally Joe. So far, his imagination has led him to picture books, such as I Wish I Were a Butterfly and Brontorina (about a dinosaur who dreams of being a ballerina), mysteries, poetry (in the upcoming Addie on the Inside), and fiction that deals with issues that matter deeply to him. But from the beginning of his career (which came about somewhat by accident after asking himself what kind of vampire a rabbit might make), he has been most interested in letting his imagination take him in whatever direction it cared to. White Read Aloud Award-winning Houndsley and Catina and its sequels. It sometimes confuses people that the author of the humorous Bunnicula series also wrote the dark young adult novel, The Watcher, or such beginning reader series as Pinky and Rex and the E.B. James Howe has written more than eighty books in the thirty-plus years he's been writing for young readers. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

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