Concerning & Potentially Concerning Content

This book celebrates all of the wrong type of behavior from start to finish. One of the worst examples for a Christian family is the relationship of the main character and his older sister. Throughout the entire book he calls her all types of names, purposely annoys her, celebrates when things go wrong for her, and it just plain mean to her. To make it worse, she returns much of the favor, as she is grumpy and rude. There is another boy in school he doesn’t like that he directs much of the same behavior towards. He is also mean, dishonest and has a poor work ethic. This extends to school, where he cheats, reads comics and draws when he should be listening/working. He is sat up front and complains he may actually have to listen. We get a glimpse of where this comes from when dad does something and then tells his son not to tell his mom. Mom and dad are often not very kind to each other.