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| Book #7 of 2010 |
| Title: Will Grayson, Will Grayson |
| Author: John Green and David Levithan |
| Publisher: Dutton Juvenile |
| Pub Date: April 6, 210 |
| Grade: A- |
| Comments: Will Grayson doesn’t want to fit in at high school; he’d rather blend into the walls. When he loses his new generic friends after writing an editorial to the school newspaper supporting his gay best friend Tiny whom he’s grown distant from, he loses the cover of normalcy and is thrust back into Tiny’s large, flamboyant life, his gay-straight alliance (because Tiny wants him to meet Jane), and Tiny’s musical about his life, in which one of the prominent characters is named Gil Wrayson.
will grayson (who writes halfway in verse and doesn’t use capital letters) is neither a wallflower or overshadowed by his best friend, but he has an online boyfriend Isaac whom he’d really like to meet, an annoying friend Maura who likes him but doesn’t seem to get the hint that he’s not interested, and a case of depression that makes life hard.
When Will Grayson is kicked out of a concert for having a fake ID that has the wrong age, and will grayson tries to meet up with Isaac with less than successful results, their lives intersect in a very interesting way.
While I will admit that initially I was much more interested in Will Grayson than his lowercase counterpart, the story did win me over. Tiny is an incredible character and I liked how well drawn his friendship with Will Grayson was (close but flawed on both sides). This is another solid effort by John Green and David Levithan.
Reviewed from (shiny!) ARC provided by Penguin at ALA Midwinter
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