Do the Bright Thing

McGee and Me! #7

by Bill Myers, Ken C. Johnson

Meet Nick Martin, a normal kid with an unusual friend--the lively, animated McGee! These companion books to the award-winning videos develop the themes to a greater degree, presenting kids with important values. (Ages 8 to 12)

Genres: Christian, Fiction

83 pages, Paperback

First published September 6, 1990

About the author

Bill Myers was born into a Christian home, and although as a child he became bored with Christianity, he decided at the University of Washington quote, to "make God my boss." Ironically, at the University his worst subject was writing. He claims to have prayed, and said that he would be able to do anything for God, except write. Even so, he has become a prominent Christian writer, and has a large amount of successful books and films to his credit.

Reviews

[Kristi Drillien]

This story is a bit of a departure in the series, which generally involves Nicholas making some kind of bad decision(s) and having to own up to it or at least learn a lesson from it. Here, Nicholas mostly just goes through some normal-life decisions, albeit with McGee in his head analyzing those decisions. The repercussions and lesson-learning are all for Nicholas's sister Sarah, whose sub-plot has a bit more of a severe outcome than is normal for this series. Though I didn't enjoy the book overall as much as some of the others, at least we get a lot less of McGee's super ego, which I'm thankful for. These books may not be easy to find anymore, but if you do have the chance to read this book or procure it for an 8-10-year-old child, I recommend it.

[Brandon Kazimir]

Was curious how they’d adapt the most bizarre and abstract McGee and Me episode into a book. Adding a b-plot where a kid gets launched by a race car and nearly dies was not what I expected.

[Bookworm]

Excellent!