The Right Hook of Devin Velma by Jake Burt
on October 2nd 2018
ISBN: 1250168627
Pages: 240
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The young boy telling the story, Addison, is tall and gets nervous when he has to talk to people, he freezes up and can’t say  anything. His best friend, Devin, is short and super talkative, pretty much the opposite. But the two have been best friends forever, that is until something  happens that changes everything.

Addison is such a great character. Readers will definitely feel badly for him when he freezes up and can’t say anything. But at the same time, the thoughts that he shares with readers about what’s going through his head will totally make them laugh. Then there are the crazy situations these two get into, some are funny, some are dangerous, but the way the two deal with them is quite entertaining. To add to all this you have Devon’s three grandmothers that only help make things funnier- like the triple G that hides her false teeth in things for Addison to find. I would have recommended this for cream but there is one part in the book I felt was out of place and that is when Addison’s mother is talking to another teacher about Addison playing the role of a garbageman, it just didn’t seem right to me and really could have been left out of an otherwise awesome book. Other than that part, an awesome book.

Ages 9 and up, Reviewed by: Mary Lehmer, Freeport Community Library, Freeport, ME