The Field Guide to the North American Teenager Review

The Field Guide To The N American Teenager was a wonderful birthday gift and a lovely surprise from my friend Kat! I retrieve she knows me preeeetty well by at present, given the fact that I really enjoyed that 1! Read my full review below!

The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe
Published by Balzer + Bray on January 7, 2020
Genres: contemporary, young adult
Format: Paperback
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Norris Kaplan is clever, cynical, and quite possibly too smart for his ain good. A Black French Canadian, he knows from watching American sitcoms that those three things don't bode well when you are moving to Austin, Texas.
Plunked into a new high schoolhouse and sweating a ridiculous amount from the oppressive Texas heat, Norris finds himself cataloging anybody he meets: the Cheerleaders, the Jocks, the Loners, and even the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Making a ton of friends has never been a priority for him, and this mode he tin can at least amuse himself until it's fourth dimension to go back to Canada, where he belongs.
Yet confronting all odds, those labels soon become actual people to Norris…like loner Liam, who makes it his mission to befriend Norris, or Madison the beta cheerleader, who is so nice that information technology has to be a trap. Not to mention Aarti the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, who might, in fact, exist a real love involvement in the making.
Merely the dark of the prom, Norris screws everything up royally. Equally he tries to pick upward the pieces, he realizes it might be fourth dimension to stop hiding behind his snarky opinions and start living his life—along with the people who have found their fashion into his heart.

☂️ TRIGGER WARNINGS:

racism, depression, mention of an attempted suicide, alcohol consumption, emesis, police brutality discussed, bullying, divorce, adulterous, sexism, slut-shaming, mention of drug abuse, microagressions, homomisic slur.

☂️ DIVERSITY:Black Haitian-French Canadian principal character, gay side character, Indian side character.

There are no spoilers in this review.

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I ENJOYED…

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• The Field Guide To The North American Teenager is about Norris, moving from Montreal, Canada to Austin, Texas, when his mother is offered a task there. Non thrilled at all to be leaving his friends, his hockey, his entire life backside him, Norris will be thrown into a new world that, with his legendary wit and big mouth he tin can't shut, will be quick to label with every cliché he can think of. Yet… in that location might be more to everyone and to this Austin life than Norris thinks… I loved this synopsis already and this volume promised to be really fun. I'm and so happy to say: I wasn't disappointed!
• The main graphic symbol of this story, Norris, isn't someone you'll necessarily autumn for. I read a lot of criticism well-nigh his with, his judgmental attitude and and so on, and then… you have been warned. That being said: I personally found his vox very refreshing. I loved getting to know him, I loved him being snarky at all times, hell, I even grew fond of him despite his insensitivity, at times. While he is certainly an unlikeable graphic symbol, I actually enjoyed my time with him on the page!
• The story is quick to build up on clichés, the shallow cheerleaders, the hot and barbarous jocks, the solidary, lonely guy, the manic-pixie-dream daughter and so on… however, niggling past little, as Norris lets them into his globe, he finds out that in that location's more to them than he first thought. I actually liked that and I loved how each side character was congenital and how each of them proved to exist more than they seemed to be.

• The friendships in this story were and so lovely. I liked seeing how Norris managed to make friends, niggling by little and it warmed my center to meet his little snarky centre soften for some of these people he was so quick to judge, at first.
• The romance! While I thought, for a long time during my read, that I wouldn't enjoy the romance, it took a turn that I ended upwardly really appreciating and fifty-fifty rooting for, so… I'm pretty happy with information technology all. I love how realistic the romantic feelings felt in this story, too. No spoilers, of class!

I HAD A HARD TIME WITH…

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• While I liked how information technology ended, I'm also a tiny niggling bit frustrated by it, but well… that's actually a me thing!
• There was one particular grapheme I was never actually on lath with: Aarti. While I expected to come across a bit more…growth on her part, or just, something more that would make me actually grow fond of her, this didn't happen and information technology made me a footling sad.

OVERALL

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The Field Guide To The Northward American Teenager is a lovely YA gimmicky I'd recommend to fans of the genre, for certain. While Norris has a item voice that might throw off some people, I personally grew quickly fond of him and his sarcastic wit and concluded upwards devouring this book!

FINAL RATING : 4 stars

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