Lizard

by Dennis Covington

Thirteen-year-old Lizard takes a chance to see the world when a salesman from up north, claiming to be his father, invites him on the road. Lizard knows his real father is dead, but he also knows that this imposter could be his ticket to freedom. A Booklist Editors' Choice book.

Genres: Fiction, Young Adult, Teen

208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[Josh Agerton · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was very unpleasant😐

[Pam · Rating 3 out of 5]

YA book. Adventures of Lucius (Lizard after he leaves the state school for the retarded with a man who claimed to be his father.

[Petergiaquinta · Rating 2 out of 5]

Better than Ariel, the last crappy YA novel I read based on Shakespeare's Tempest, at least Lizard didn't make me want to vomit, and there were a couple of points at which I thought it might even grow into something mildly readable. But I was wrong.

Exile, loss, noble savages, and shitty community theatre...stick with Bill Shakespeare, and you won't go wrong.

Who's telling YA authors that The Tempest needs to be rewritten for pubescent Tweeners? Not me!



Here's my review for Ariel:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And here's a much better treatment of The Tempest by a much better author, Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed, written for the Hogarth Shakespeare series:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...