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　　When it comes to relationships, Colin Singletonas type is

girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine,

Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a

road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washedup child

prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty

feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judyaloving best

friend riding shotgunabut no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to

prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he

hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees

everywhere, and finally win him the girl. Love, friendship, and a

dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and

heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel

about reinventing oneself.

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What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

The vast majority of child prodigies don't become adult geniuses. Colin was almost certain that he was among that unfortunate majority.

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　　From Booklist

　　Gr. 9-12. Green follows his Printz-winning Looking for Alaska

(2005) with another sharp, intelligent story, this one full of

mathematical problems, historical references, word puzzles, and

footnotes. Colin Singleton believes he is a washed-up child

prodigy. A graduating valedictorian with a talent for creating

anagrams, he fears he'll never do anything to classify him as a

genius. To make matters worse, he has just been dumped by his most

recent girlfriend (all of them have been named Katherine), and he's

inconsolable. What better time for a road trip! He and his buddy

Hassan load up the gray Olds (Satan's Hearse) and leave Chicago.

They make it as far as Gutshot, Tennessee, where they stop to tour

the gravesite of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and meet a girl who

isn't named Katherine. It's this girl, Lindsey, who helps Colin

work on a mathematical theorem to predict the duration of romantic

relationships. The laugh-out-loud humor ranges from delightfully

sophomoric to subtly intellectual, and the boys' sarcastic repartee

will help readers navigate the slower parts of the story, which

involve local history interviews. The idea behind the book is that

everyone's story counts, and what Colin's contributes to the world,

no matter how small it may seem to him, will, indeed, matter. An

appendix explaining the complex math is "fantastic," or as the

anagrammatically inclined Green might have it, it's enough to make

"cats faint." Cindy Dobrez

Copyright © American Library Association. All rights

reserved

　　From School Library Journal

　　Grade 9 Up–This novel is not as issue-oriented as Greens Looking

for Alaska (Dutton, 2005), though it does challenge readers with

its nod to postmodern structure. Right after intellectual

child-prodigy Colin Singleton graduates from high school, his

girlfriend (who, like the 18 young women and girls whom he claimed

as girlfriends over the years, is named Katherine) breaks up with

him and sends him into a total funk. His best friend, Hassan,

determines that he can only be cured with a road trip. After some

rather aimless driving, the two find themselves in Gutshot, TN,

where locals persuade them to stay. There, Colin spends his spare

time working on a mathematical theorem of love, hypothesizing that

romantic relationships can be graphed and predicted. The narrative

is self-consciously dorky, peppered with anagrams, trivia, and

foreign-language bons mots and interrupted by footnotes that

explain, translate, and expound upon the text in the form of

asides. It is this type of mannered nerdiness that has the

potential to both win over and alienate readers. As usual, Greens

primary and secondary characters are given de*ive attention

and are fully and humorously realized. While enjoyable, witty, and

even charming, a book with an appendix that describes how the

mathematical functions in the novel can be created and graphed is

not for everybody. The readers who do embrace this book, however,

will do so wholeheartedly.–Amy S. Pattee, Simmons College,

Boston

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When it comes to relationships, Colin Singletonas type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washedup child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judyaloving best friend riding shotgunabut no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl. Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.