Bigger, Badder, Nerdier by Obert Skye
Published by Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) on April 30, 2019
ISBN: 1627799419
Pages: 240
Genres: Humor, Science Fiction
Format: Chapter Book Fiction
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Billed as dystopia meets Wimpy Kids, Tip and his friends have discovered they possess mild superpowers (super burping, super hearing, super clapping, and turning things on/off with their mind) and they use these powers to save their middle school from the evil school secretary, Darth Susan. Formerly the AV club, Tip and his friends now go by LAME, or the League of Average and Mediocre Entities. The drawings are fun and there are some clever jokes along the way, e.g., the apocalypse was caused by the “fanatics” who hated the third installment of the popular Sand Thrower movies so much that they left the theaters and began destroying the Earth. The font is very basic and not graphical as readers might expect. This might be a change of pace for fanatical Wimpy Kid readers who want to try a new genre but with so many excellent graphical books and dystopian titles to select from, not highly recommended.

Reviewed by Karen Sandlin Silverman, Mt. Ararat Middle School, Topsham