What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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One Seriously Messed-Up Week in the Otherwise Mundane and Uneventful Life of Jack Samsonite
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SOLVED. YA coming of age, funny. High school boy writes a report on how to get the girl and become popular, hates his name. Book in report format. Read around 2014. Spoiler ahead. [s]
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"set in an English secondary school. I read it around 5 years ago, Definitely, a book aimed at teens. The main plot is a boy trying to get the girl he likes. I don't remember names or anything. What I do remember is that he passes notes to the girl and she passes them back. But their English teacher confiscates these notes. The boy breaks into the teacher's office and goes through the bin. He finds a note saying "meet me at McDonalds parking lot". So he goes there but the note wasn't meant for him. He sees the girl kissing the English teacher in his class. The teacher then beats up the boy. Thats the main plot but other random bits I remember are:
-The boy enjoyed drama lessons, he did a piece with his crush
-He would always hang out on the field at lunch with his friends
-Him and his friend would often sit and watch the girls play tennis.
-He has an asthma inhaler in his pocket, everyone in his class thinks he has a huge p....
Any help would be massively appreciated, this has been bugging me for years"
Andria wrote: "Storky: How I Lost My Nickname and Won the Girl"thanks for the help, I looked at it and that's not the book I'm talking about but thanks for replying :)
Have you ruled out all the suggestions in message 3?
Rainbowheart wrote: "Have you ruled out all the suggestions in message 3?"Hi, so sorry, I didn't notice the response. Just looked at all of them and they aren't right. Thanks for your help though. The most memorable and stand out part of the plot is the ending, where the main character (male) discovers that his crush is in a relationship with their English teacher
There's a list for Inappropriate Teacher/Student Relationships in YA. Not sure if your book is on it, but it might be worth a look.
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One Seriously Messed-Up Week in the Otherwise Mundane and Uneventful Life of Jack Samsonite, by Tom Clempson?Our hero?
Jack Samsonite
His mission?
1) pass his GCSEs
2) get the girl (to notice he exists)
3) survive the week without a serious face punching
Good thing he's got a plan. Well, half a plan...
Glad it's solved!Raphael edited to say One Seriously Messed-Up Week in the Otherwise Mundane and Uneventful Life of Jack Samsonite is the correct book.
What's the Name of That Book???
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Robert wrote: "One Seriously Messed-Up Week in the Otherwise Mundane and Uneventful Life of Jack Samsonite, by Tom Clempson?
Our hero?
Jack Samsonite
His mission?
1) pass his GC..."
YA Coming of Age Story, Kid Writes Report On How To Get The Girl
A YA novel that was written like a report for English class where the Main Character decides to become popular and win the favour of his crush (Name began with E, I wanna say Ellie or Eleanor) and then detail how he does it in the report.
I believe he also gets involved in a Fist Fight scenario where he has to fight a bully at the end of the week but ends up fighting E's boyfriend? This is because E just told him that they're sleeping with the teacher of the English class that MC is writing the report for. MC uses the report to give the teacher an ultimatum where MC gets an A and the teacher stops seeing E (for moral reasons) or MC will publish the report to the world (with a cheeky nod that he might make it a full book).
There's also a scene where rumour accidentally spreads throughout the school that he's well-endowed because of the way he put an inhaler in his pocket. It was a kind of light-hearted coming of age comedy that I remember being really funny at the time and one of the few YA novels where the kids actually talked like kids.
It was set in modern day and was probably only a couple hundred pages. I think I read it in a week and I was doing something like 50 pages a night at that point.
I can't for the life of me remember what the book looked like but I remember it being colourful and possibly blue. There's a running theme throughout the book that the character hates his own name so he changes it so the cover has his real name crossed and out and replaced with something like "Johnny Lightning" so the full title is one of those really long ones like "Johnny Lightning: How To Get The Girl and Win The Fight, a Book Report".
I read this around 2014 when I was just coming into adulthood, a friend handed it to me at the School Library. I don't remember how new it was, I hadn't heard of it before and I haven't heard of it since. It looked new and it as definitely for the Young Adult Demographic, 14-18.