Helpful Score: 1
INTO THE WILD NERD YONDER is a cute and heartfelt look into the treacherous waters that is high school friendships. While it didnt make me fall in love with it as it did with many others, INTO THE WILD NERD YONDER was still a charming read with excellent characters.
Jessie is a likable protagonist, with her sewing tendencies, warm-hearted worries, and self-proclaimed nerdiness. Shes nerdy, but not in a way that will put off readers/potential friends. She has such a healthy relationship with her familyher relationship with her brother is particularly touchingthat the focus of the book can be off the stereotypical teen family angst and more about worries regarding friendships.
While the characters (and, indeed, the whole storyline) are not exceptionally deep or memorable, everything has the pleasant feel-good entertainment value of, say, a Disney Channel original movie: the villains are not irredeemably bad, the problems inconvenient but not devastating. The plot moved along at a leisurely pace so that the second half of the book, in which Jessie finds new friends, feels a bit rushed.
However, these are not failings but simply characteristics of the genre that INTO THE WILD NERD YONDER falls into: an easy and light read with characters who make us smile and a moral that makes us nod in recognition. If this is the type of read youre reading for, look no further than this one.
Jessie is a likable protagonist, with her sewing tendencies, warm-hearted worries, and self-proclaimed nerdiness. Shes nerdy, but not in a way that will put off readers/potential friends. She has such a healthy relationship with her familyher relationship with her brother is particularly touchingthat the focus of the book can be off the stereotypical teen family angst and more about worries regarding friendships.
While the characters (and, indeed, the whole storyline) are not exceptionally deep or memorable, everything has the pleasant feel-good entertainment value of, say, a Disney Channel original movie: the villains are not irredeemably bad, the problems inconvenient but not devastating. The plot moved along at a leisurely pace so that the second half of the book, in which Jessie finds new friends, feels a bit rushed.
However, these are not failings but simply characteristics of the genre that INTO THE WILD NERD YONDER falls into: an easy and light read with characters who make us smile and a moral that makes us nod in recognition. If this is the type of read youre reading for, look no further than this one.
