{"id":11718,"date":"2020-09-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11718"},"modified":"2022-08-25T11:03:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T16:03:03","slug":"with-music-the-kids-of-widney-junior-high-take-over-the-world-by-mathew-klickstein-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11718","title":{"rendered":"With music, THE KIDS OF WIDNEY JUNIOR HIGH TAKE OVER THE WORLD! by Mathew Klickstein (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bullied his first week at junior high, 11 year old Robbie is rescued by big Peewee who invites him to band practice where the autistic<\/a> eighth grader is a singer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Led by their special ed teacher (and former rock musician), the six-member Kids of Widney Junior High rock band has written many original songs as they prepare for their first big public concert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robbie quickly learns that his new friends’ lives aren’t like media stereotypes – Daniel and Cain live with blindness<\/a> but don’t want to feel his face, and Tanesa zings through life with cerebral palsy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the concert date nears, longtime couple Peewee and Elisa have a big argument during rehearsal, overwhelming Cain who says he’s quitting the band!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does Peewee understand the true power of his words now?
Can the Kids get Elisa and Cain back to rehearsals?
Will the record company exec really attend their show?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This fictional account of the real band members’ struggles in junior high echoes the experiences of many young people that the world sees as ‘different’ on the outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kids of Widney High<\/a> are still performing as adults today, opening for established bands, have produced four albums, and were featured in ‘The Ringer’ movie. Real-life Peewee says “Don’t let anything, even your disabilities, cloud your dreams. Just go for it!” (pg. 141).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy book birthday to The Kids of Widney Junior High!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where will your dreams take you?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: The Kids of Widney Junior High Take Over the World! \/ Mathew Klickstein; illustrated by Michael S. Bracco. Schiffer Kids, 2020. [author site<\/a>] [illustrator interview<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bullied his first week at junior high, 11 year old Robbie is rescued by big Peewee who invites him to band practice where the autistic eighth grader is a singer. Led by their special ed teacher (and former rock musician), the six-member Kids of Widney Junior High rock band has written many original songs as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19],"tags":[163,22,4,197,105,11,20,5,16,196,220,18,44,322,49,86,15,9,21,35,53,8],"class_list":["post-11718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-african-american","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-bullying","tag-california","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-disability","tag-diversity","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-latinx","tag-memories","tag-music","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-us-artist","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11718"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13164,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11718\/revisions\/13164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}