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Being the new kid at school can be really tough.\u00a0 But being the new, fat, deaf kid in a school without an interpreter or a captioning system?\u00a0 I can\u2019t even imagine!\u00a0 Luckily, Will Halpin has an uncanny ability to lipread and doesn\u2019t much care what the \u201ccool kids\u201d think.\u00a0 He has surmised, though, that everyone else is practically willing to kill each other for an invite to the upcoming birthday party of an \u00fcber-popular jock named Pat.\u00a0 This story isn\u2019t just about the difficulties Will faced with main-streaming and making friends, though.\u00a0 The real story is about how Will and Devon Smiley forged their new friendship while trying to figure out how Pat ended up dead during a field trip to the Happy Memory Coal Mine.<\/p>\n
I enjoyed this story for a number of reasons, but first and foremost is the fact that there a good mix of humor and mystery.\u00a0 It was definitely more Castle<\/em> than CSI<\/em>, if you know what I mean.\u00a0 The fact that Josh Berk even managed to include a lot of information about deaf culture in a way that was neither clunky nor didactic was also awesome.\u00a0 The original book cover is honestly the only thing I didn\u2019t like about this book.\u00a0 Luckily, it has been re-released with a new cover that is more likely to appeal to teens and also hints at the mystery within.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Being the new kid at school can be really tough.\u00a0 But being the new, fat, deaf kid in a school without an interpreter or a captioning system?\u00a0 I can\u2019t even imagine!\u00a0 Luckily, Will Halpin has an uncanny ability to lipread and doesn\u2019t much care what the \u201ccool kids\u201d think.\u00a0 He has surmised, though, that everyone … Continue reading The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin by Josh Berk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}