Born To Rock

I just finished reading Gordon Korman's new book, Born To Rock, which is a 2007 Ontario Library Association Red Maple Book Award nominee. It took me back to my days of reading his Macdonald Hall books, and was another good re-foray into some fiction reading.



The story centres around Leo, who is a Young Republican and bound for Harvard. When he is accused of cheating on a test, Leo loses his scholarship and decides to head out on the road with his newly discovered biological father, a very famous rock star named King Maggot, whom Leo hopes will fund his tuition. Hilarity, confusion, good music, and of course a budding romance, ensue.

There is something about Young Adult fiction that makes me, in the words of Cher Horowitz, sublimely happy.