Double-Click for Trouble

by Chris Woodworth

Eddie McCall is a good kid. He does his homework, picks up around the house, and cooks dinner for his single mom when she has to work late at a Chicago hotel. Then Eddie’s best friend, Whip, shows him a printout from the Internet— a picture of an honest-to-gosh naked woman—and suddenly Eddie can’t seem to think about anything else. He knows his mom will be upset if she sees the sites he’s visiting. Still, he doesn’t expect her to ship him off to her hometown of Sheldon, Indiana, to live with his great-uncle Peavey for an entire month. Peavey isn’t exactly the father figure thirteen-year-old Eddie’s been looking for. He spits tobacco juice into a can, calls a toilet a “commode,” and certainly doesn’t own a computer. As it turns out, however, both Peavey McCall and Sheldon, Indiana, hold some very surprising secrets . . . The author captures two worlds in this tender and funny look at a boy learning what it really means to be a man.

Genres: Young Adult

162 pages, Hardcover

First published May 27, 2008

About the author

CHRIS WOODWORTH’s debut novel, When Ratboy Lived Next Door, was hailed by School Library Journal as “an outstanding offering from a first-time author.” Her novel, Double-Click for Trouble, was selected as finalist for Best Book of Indiana–Children’s Literature and her book, Georgie's Moon, won Best Book of Indiana-Children's Literature. Her newest novel, Ivy in the Shadows, will be released in 2013. (All published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.)

Chris has lived in Indiana most of her life, recently moving to North Carolina. She is the mother of two children.

Reviews

[Megan M. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I gave this book 4 stars because I thought this book was interesting. It was a good realistic fiction book. I liked the characters they seemed real to me when I was reading the book. I liked it because I like to read about things that could happen to regular people. The settings were good too I thought it was cool to have one of the settings in a big city and the other in a small town. The characters were very realistic to me because they were like real people.

[Robbie · Rating 1 out of 5]

Didn't finish it.