The League of Unexceptional Children, by Gitty Daneshvari
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Are you average? Normal? Forgettable? If so, the League of Unexceptional Children is for you! This first book in a hilarious new adventure series is for anyone who's struggled to be noticed in a sea of above-average overachievers.What is the League of Unexceptional Children? I'm glad you asked. You didn't ask? Well, you would have eventually and I hate to waste time. The League of Unexceptional Children is a covert network that uses the nation's most average, normal, and utterly unexceptional children as spies. Why the average kids? Why not the brainiacs? Or the beauty queens? Or the jocks? It's simple: People remember them. But not the unexceptionals. They are the forgotten ones. Until now!
The League of Unexceptional Children, by Gitty Daneshvari- Amazon Sales Rank: #367895 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-20
- Released on: 2015-10-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .88" w x 5.63" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 240 pages
From School Library Journal Gr 4–6—Twelve-year-old Shelley and Jonathan are average kids: forgettable, normal, and looked over. In fact, many of their classmates have been going to school with them for years and would not be able to recognize them if they were stuck in an elevator together. However, their ordinariness is the qualifying trait that the League of Unexceptional Children is looking for. The League is a covert network of spies that are, well, unexceptional. The unexceptionals are the forgotten ones, the spies that can slip in and out of a room without anyone bothering to notice. After an inept security guard allowed the White House to be breached, several monumental things have happened: the vice president is missing, the nation's greatest spies are deactivated, and several confidential documents and data are compromised. Thankfully, Shelley and Jonathan are average, forgettable, but perfect additions to the League of Unexceptional Children. They have vowed to risk their lives for their country's liberties, all the while answering to the wrong name. From the best-selling author of School of Fear (2010) and the "Ghoulfriends Forever" series (both Little, Brown), comes a humorous middle grade novel that keeps readers giggling. The story flows easily through short chapters with interwoven art that further captures the humor of Jonathan and Shelley's case. VERDICT With humor that both girls and boys will enjoy, this likable book is a good fit for most collections.—Brittney Kosev, Dave Blair Elementary School, Farmers Branch, TX
Review "Daneshvari recognizes that far more powerful than a dork becoming cool is the ignored finally being heard, the invisible seen. Here's hoping we will be witnessing much more of Jonathan and Shelley's kind of transformation, on the page and in life."―The New York Times"Delivers hilarious shenanigans...This humorous new series is sure to appeal to fans of Daneshvari and other lovers of the ludicrous."―Kirkus"Pokes sly fun at the pressure to raise future valedictorians and CEOs, by turning the tables on the classic trope of an average kid discovering greatness...Daneshvari's fast-paced, twisty story is chock-full of clever humor."―Publishers Weekly"This...amusing chapter book goes down easy. Even with the fate of the world resting on their 'slightly hunched' shoulders, the main characters are so disarmingly upfront about their inadequacies that they'll definitely have readers on their side."―Booklist"Keeps readers giggling."―SLJ"It will hook readers and have them anxiously awaiting the next adventure."―School Library Connection
About the Author Gitty Daneshvari is the author of the middle grade series School of Fear and Monster High: Ghoulfriends. At the ripe old age of ten, a school IQ test determined she was neither gifted nor talented. Decades later, Gitty realized that more important than being "talented" is finding what you love and working hard at it.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Unexceptional, But It Has Its Moments By Pop Bop The basic premise here is popping up more and more. Two kids are so average and blandly invisible they are recruited by the League of Unexceptional Children to operate as spies. The running joke is that no one ever notices or remembers them so they are functionally undercover even when they're out in the open. That premise allows the narrator and the characters to take a lot of pot shots at our supposed succeed-at-all-costs culture. Putting aside whether you think that culture is as pervasive or as meretricious as assumed, how does this book work as an entertainment?Well, a lot of the book is repetitious. We go on and on about the heroes' averageness, we have little chapter heading quotes from average kids, all of the adults only ever talk about the heroes' averageness, and the heroes only ever think about their averageness. Pretty early on one gets the idea. And of course the whole project is tricky - if the heroes are supposed to be bland and dull, then why do we want to read about them or follow their adventures? Either the kids have to be secretly, internally interesting or the author has to be remarkably clever and quick-witted in describing them and what happens to them.Here, we get a little bit of both approaches. Sometimes the kids offer a funny insight or bit of dialogue that stands out. Sometimes the narrator tosses off a funny throwaway line. Sometimes there's a bit of business among the characters that has a twist and a bit of humorous bite. (At one point the kids enter the League's secret lair through a hidden door in the back of a hot dog stand's walk-in refrigerator. Our heroine muses that "[i]t's kind of like Narnia, only with a lot of pork products,...". I think that's witty and just a touch edgy. It's bits like that that got me through the book.) There is an effort to include quirky secondary characters to punch up the narrative, but most of them are in equal parts amusing, over broad, and annoying, so I'm not sure where that gets you.I guess the upshot here is that this ended up being a perfectly fine and readable book, with a few high points and an occasional edge but an awful lot of fill. I would expect that fans of the author's "School of Fear" series will like the book, as would many other early middle graders looking for a light read. It's just that for me the book didn't stand out from the crowd.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.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. HUMOR & HEART! By Courtney Gitty Daneshvari's books always have incredible humor and incredible heart. I loved this book so much that I wrote it into a book I was working on, and I passed it on to my 9 year old friend Avery, herself an avid reader, who read it in a day and put THE LEAGUE OF UNEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN on her shelf of favorites.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Read and feel special By Darkxy "The League of Unexceptional Children" is this little fluffy entertainment that won't blow your mind, but will give you much needed laughs and giggles.As two very average kids being recruited as spies (because they are so ordinary that no one notices or remembers them) to save USA from falling to pieces, we get to follow them on this fast fun ride of a story. While main plot won't rock your socks off with originality and complexity, I believe that this book actually never meant to do it in the first place. It doesn't have any pretenses on being something important or significant; the strength of "TLOUC" lies in the humor of it, which is extremely self-deprecating, yet innocent at the same time. I really liked "introductions" from kids (and an adult) to each chapter, and yes, my dog also sometimes looks at me in a "Come on, even I could have done that better!" way. Apparently I can relate.I also believe that since kids are portrayed in SUCH an outrageous, over-the-top manner of "average-ness" that even the shiest,most self-doubting kid reading this book will find something special in him/her and feel good about it. As a matter of fact, anyone can feel good about themselves nest to Shelley, Jonathan and ESPECIALLY Arthur. Therefore, let's take advantage of this gift in the hard-knock life we're living and feel our intelligence rise with every word coming out of Arthur's mouth. Good times!"The League of Unexceptional Children" is a good one-time fluff that will lift your mood and make you smile; sometimes it's all one need to feel better and get over a certain slump. Try it for yourself - all kinds of giggles, chuckles, laughs and possible snorts are practically unavoidable while reading this book!
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