BOOK: The education of Robert Nifkin by Pinkwater

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@TELLURIAN.NET>]

Pinkwater, Daniel._The education of Robert Nifkin_, 1998
    Daniel Pinkwater has a very strange sense of humor ( I would
like to meet him) and this one follows right along with it.  The book
is funny in a Pinkwater kind of way.  It is written in the form of a
rather long essay for a college application describing his 1950's HS
education.  Everything is rather strange and exaggerated.
Teachers run the gamut from anti-communist, anti-semitic, and
creative.  The situations are bizarre.  This will be right up the alley
for Pinkwater fans at the upper Jr. High or HS level.  I will not put
this book in my middle school library -- it is too strange and High
School oriented along with containing some possibly offensive
language.  The cover of this 167 page book looks too cute for upper
level reading so it may not reach its proper audience.
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Frederick Muller
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