Kevin is a compulsive liar, which isn't a very attractive quality in a person. Luckily, he's funny and good-hearted too, so that makes up for a lot. He kind of reminds me of Joey Pigza, or what Joey would be like as an 8th grade boy whose hormones start messing with his judgement. Trouble starts one day when he notices Tina, a girl he has known since kindergarten, has turned into the most beautiful creature on the planet. Until now he has used his lies as sort of an art or recreation, but now he feels compelled to lie to get out of classes and pretend to be someone he is not to impress Tina. As you might expect, he gets caught in his lies. The ending stretches credulity just a bit as Kevin takes responsibility for all his actions and makes everything right.

Kevin has a fun voice, evidenced here when his sister practices waxing eyebrows on him. "'Won't hurt a bit, Kev, I'll pull it off clean and fast,' she said before she ripped off so many layers of my forehead along with my eyebrow hair, you could almost see brain matter. I peed and screamed -- a little and not so little, respectively. But now I notice girls' eyebrows." He has an endearing relationship with the little hellion he babysits, and there's some background drama about his parents who aren't getting along very well. This is a very short book that will appeal to middle school boys and even reluctant high school boys -- you'll have to do quite a sales job, however, because the cover art looks like 3rd grade material.