Representation: N/A
Trigger warnings: Bullying
Score: Six points out of ten.
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I saw Rhyme Schemer circling my recommendations a few months ago and soon after, I saw that one library I went to had this one so I immediately seized the opportunity to get it by picking it up. Afterwards, I picked it up and read it but when I finished it I only thought it was an okay piece of literature.

It starts with the first person I see, Kevin, whose last name remains undisclosed who spends the opening pages thinking about who will he bully, much to my dismay. I took a immediate disliking to him at first but eventually he is not what he seems to be at first glance. Soon enough the school suspended Kevin for his actions and I thought he deserved that but after I read a few pages Kevin shows a side I previously knew nothing of: his poetry. He likes to take words from existing texts and make new creations out of it which I found fascinating. Rhyme Schemer shines in its character development involving Kevin and the engaging pacing which never made me put the book down. However, the author didn't give as much attention to the other people in Rhyme Schemer, which was such a missed opportunity as I wanted to connect with them as well. The ending is dramatic. ( )

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Cuando leí And We Stay dije que se me hizo difícil entender toda la poesía que había entre capítulo y capítulo, por más que lo intenté mi cerebro no quiso registrar nada de lo que decía entre verso y verso.

¿Leer TODO un libro escrito en verso, uh?

Quizá me esté equivocando en llamarlo "verso", no recuerdo muy bien como se llamaba, en el colegio siempre me quedaba en blanco cada vez que empezaban a hablar sobre poesía, lo cuál es irónico porque la única forma en la que aprobaba mi curso de literatura era escribiendo poesía :P Tuve engañado a mi profesor tantos años :D

Créanlo o no, AME este libro, está escrito y dirigido para lectores menores que yo, así que la manera en la que está escrita por muy complicada que pueda parecer es amigable y amena. Todo el libro está en verso, es espectacular, no tienen idea. Recuerdo que una vez leí una historia corta de Ellen Hopkins, que también escribe parecido, y lo único que me pareció fue que le gustaba escribir de ladito, pero en Rhyme Schemer no, quiero decir, entendí lo que decía entre rima y rima. ¿Qué tan genial es eso?

Una historia actual

La trama es sobre bullying, como dice la sinopsis, Kevin pasa de ser bullyador a ser bullyiado (como diríamos coloquialmente). Ya de por si es graciosa la idea de que un acosador escriba poesía. Si eres alguien que fue acosado en el colegio ¿te imaginas a tu acosador escribiendo poesía? ¿Si encontrarás pruebas sobre eso que hubieras hecho? Rhyme Schemer es una historia bastante tierna y real. ¿En qué sentido? En qué siempre hay una razón del por qué ciertas personas actúan de cierta manera, buena o mala. Siendo un libro Middle Grade el tema es tocado bastante inocentemente, sin embargo no por eso deja de transmitir muchas emociones

Rhyme Schemer otra mis lecturas memorables del año.

Paul is annoying

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YA Clever, clever, clever! This is a story in free verse. The school year is just beginning for 7th grader Kevin Jamison. Day 1 and he is already feeling tortured. To say he is a non-traditional learner would be sugar-coating things. He is smart and scrappy and tells us his story in his poetry interspersed with some of the Poetry Bandit's antics: he rips pages out of old books and circles words, phrases and letters to convey a message. Clever. Behind the hype, he is hurting. The youngest of 4 boys, (all his older brother has names that begin with P) he is the butt of their taunting and teasing, if they bother to take notice of him at all. Mom and Dad are high-powered busy doctors who also don't seem to have much time for him. Kevin alternately sees himself as stone and as vulnerable -- which will win out? When he is stone, he is cruel to other kids and often in the principal's office. When he is vulnerable he is a poet, and also under the wing of the school librarian Mrs. Little. "You know how when something bad happens your ears feel stuffed with socks, your eyes focus like microscopes, your cheeks catch on fire, time slows down, and no matter how much you wish pray promise beg a hole does not open up and swallow you?" (126) Pretty much sums up middle school. ( )

Recommended for middle school students.... words are power. ( )

Kevin has a bad attitude. He's the one who laughs when you trip and fall. In fact, he may have been the one who tripped you in the first place. He has a real knack for rubbing people the wrong way--and he's even figured out a secret way to do it with poems. But what happens when the tables are turned and he is the one getting picked on?