The Next Great Paulie Fink by Ali Benjamin

Told in multiple voices, interviews, and documents, this funny, thought-provoking novel from the bestselling author of The Thing About Jellyfish is a memorable exploration of what makes a hero-and if anyone, or anything, is truly what it seems. The Next Great Paulie Fink by Ali Benjamin 4.05 Rating details 2,149 ratings 416 reviews When Caitlyn Breen enters the tiny Mitchell School in rural Mitchell, Vermont, she is a complete outsider: the seventh grade has just ten other kids, and they've known each other since kindergarten. Does this ever really work Caitlyn decides to tell her Mini a story (94). In the interview with Sam, Willow, Lydia, Thomas and Timothy (80-81), we learn that Paulie was very convincing and made things seem real just by repeating them over and over. With each challenge, Caitlyn struggles to understand a person she never met.but it's what she discovers about herself that most surprises her. Apply the lesson of the cave to life at Mitchell School (77). Now he's disappeared, and Caitlyn finds herself leading a reality-show-style competition to find the school's next great Paulie Fink. I’ve also co-written memoirs for and with others. One thing's for sure, though: The kid was totally legendary. My books include THE SMASH-UP (Random House, 2021), which is my first adult novel, I also wrote THE NEXT GREAT PAULIE FINK (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2019), THE THING ABOUT JELLYFISH (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2015), which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2015. Award-winning author Ali Benjamin 's new young adult novel 'The Next Great Paulie Fink' explores familiar teen themes, from teen angst, to bullying to self-definition. When Caitlyn Breen begins her disorienting new life at Mitchell School-where the students take care of real live goats and study long-dead philosophers, and where there are only ten other students in the entire seventh grade-it seems like nobody can stop talking about some kid named Paulie Fink.ĭepending on whom you ask, Paulie was either a hilarious class clown, a relentless troublemaker, a hapless klutz, or an evil genius. In this acclaimed novel by the author of the award-winning, bestselling The Thing About Jellyfish, being the new kid at school isn't easy, especially when you have to follow in the footsteps of a legendary classroom prankster.