Be True to Your School
by Bob Green
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Author: Bob GreenEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1988-05-12
ISBN: 0345353943
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Book Review: The Wonder Years
Summary: 5 Stars
Which came first? Was it Bob Greene's book "Be True to Your School" or the popular TV comedy series "The Wonder Years"? Well, truth of the matter is, the book came first in 1987. And, I really loved reading Bob's book. Then, I saw the premiere season of "Wonder Years" on TV in 1988 and I thought to myself, "Well, how about that? Someone turned Bob's memoirs into a real winner of a TV show!" The TV series ran through 1993 and (just like the book) many of the TV episodes reflected actual events that happened to many of us in those bittersweet days of junior high school. It was like someone had been following all of us around with a clipboard taking notes. The TV show won a Golden Globe and 22 other awards before it was finally through. Sadly, Bob Greene's book now appears to be out-of-print and only available as a used book (if you're lucky enough to find it). Kind of ironic. More than likely, there was no real connection between Bob's book and the TV show. However, perhaps you've heard the Law of 100 Monkeys. Well, one of those monkeys escaped and caught someobody's ear over at ABC-TV. If you ever find Bob's book somewhere, it's a great, great read - especially if you're one of those people that remembers after-school sockhops, passing notes during class and hanging out with your friends after school, listening to The Beach Boys or The Four Seasons. Those were the days.
Summary of Be True to Your School
Today, Bob Greene is a celebrated, nationally-syndicated columnist. In 1964, he was a seventeen-year-old Ohio high school kid. And he kept a diary.It's all here. The teenage girl who got away. The twenty-seven-year-old woman who didn't. The first beer. The first job. A series of bad haircuts. Friendship and betrayal, griping and groping, a daily account of one boy's struggle -- and all of our struggles -- to forge his way into adulthood with dignity intact, virginity a bad memory, and the day-to-day knowledge that it's not going to get any easier.
"A delightful book, and like the song Greene cruised to that summer, fun, fun, fun." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Everyone who was ever seventeen will love it!" -- Ann Landers
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