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Inventing Elliot

Name: Inventing Elliot
Author: Graham Gardner

by Graham Gardner

2003•Drama•183 pages

Taste attributes: dramateenrealisticsimplelinearenclosedemotive & stirringempowerment/personal growthtroubled leadscoming of age

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Boxlist takeExpect a contained, uncomplicated novel, grounded rather than fantastical. Best if you like plain sailing over puzzles.

Taste details

Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: true to life · Story: simple · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

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About This Book

Elliot, a victim of bullying, invents a calmer, cooler self when he changes schools in the middle of freshman year, but soon attracts the wrong kind of attention from the Guardians who "maintain order" at the new school.

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Characteristics

Where this book sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast

FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal

DarkTONEWholesome

LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy

FantasyREALISMRealistic

SimpleINTRICACYIntricate

Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear

UnderstatedSTYLEStylised

IntimateSCALEEpic

RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

DramaTeenEmpowerment/personal growthTroubled leadsComing of age

Subjects

Teenage boysFamily problemsSelf-realization in fictionBullies in fictionSelf-realizationBulliesSchools in fictionFamily problems in fiction

Details

Author: Graham Gardner
Published: 2003
Pages: 183
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Source: Open Library

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