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Goodbye, Carleton High
Albert "Falko" Falkenheimer is tired of feeling like a loser. His classmates call him stupid because of his reading problem, and his teachers call him a troublemaker just because of a few great practical jokes. And on top of everything else, his girlfriend Cathy hasdecided to go out with Henry Schlieff, the class snob and Falko's worst enemy. Maybe, Falko thinks, the solution is to quit school... but then what will he do?
It takes a few lessons from life, from friends - even from school - to teach Falko that he may have a few things going for him after all.
It takes a few lessons from life, from friends - even from school - to teach Falko that he may have a few things going for him after all.
131 pages
Published January 1, 1983
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January 3, 2020Cross-posted from my blog where there's more information on where I got my copy and everything.
This is incredibly dated, but I actually would like to see a modern-day equivalent of this. I think a story of a dyslexic teen trying to figure whether they want to stay in school or seek something else for their future. However, this isn’t that. This is really dated, a little sexist, and the plot is really confused. I actually like that it’s a smaller read because that can be cool for selective readers, who you’d hope would probably be the intended audience for a book about a kid who doesn’t like to read because of his learning disorder.
But unfortunately, in just over a hundred pages, the plot manages to meander and doesn’t seem to know what it wants to do. Much of the stuff mentioned in the blurb only comes up in the last, like, ten pages or so, and it has absolutely no resolution. I think readers who don’t love reading would end up more frustrated than anything at this one, honestly. So I’m gonna pass this one along, because I didn’t like it nearly enough to keep it on my packed shelves.
This is incredibly dated, but I actually would like to see a modern-day equivalent of this. I think a story of a dyslexic teen trying to figure whether they want to stay in school or seek something else for their future. However, this isn’t that. This is really dated, a little sexist, and the plot is really confused. I actually like that it’s a smaller read because that can be cool for selective readers, who you’d hope would probably be the intended audience for a book about a kid who doesn’t like to read because of his learning disorder.
But unfortunately, in just over a hundred pages, the plot manages to meander and doesn’t seem to know what it wants to do. Much of the stuff mentioned in the blurb only comes up in the last, like, ten pages or so, and it has absolutely no resolution. I think readers who don’t love reading would end up more frustrated than anything at this one, honestly. So I’m gonna pass this one along, because I didn’t like it nearly enough to keep it on my packed shelves.
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