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Teen Boat! the Race For Boatlantis

by Dave Roman
John Green
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In this companion to the first hilarious Teen Boat! book, bestselling author Dave Roman (Astronaut Academy) and cartoonist John Green (InvestiGators) deliver high school and high seas drama with a boatload of laughs.

Teen Boat has always felt different from the other kids, which makes sense, since he's the only one who can transform into a yacht.

Now, just before his high school graduation, he embarks on an epic quest of self-discovery. He learns of a mysterious city called Boatlantis, where boats are at the top of the social ladder. Can it be true? Has he finally found the place where a half boy/half boat belongs? Or will he always be torn between two worlds?

"While I am not the John Green who illustrated this book, I am a John Green who ABSOLUTELY LOVES the unadulterated brilliance that is Teen Boat!" —John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars

The ANGST of being a Teen—the THRILL of being a Boat! For more laughs, don't miss the first book, Teen Boat!

  • Creators

  • Series

    Teen Boat

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    September 1, 2015

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780547865645
      • File size: 6 KB
    Kindle restrictions

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 3.5
    • Lexile® Measure: 500
    • Interest Level: 6-12(MG+)
    • Text Difficulty: 0-2

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      July 15, 2015
      The Teen Boat graphic novels have such a perfect premise that they almost don't read as parody. The main character of the series turns into a boat when he gets water in his ear. It's not much sillier than the Ranma 1/2 comics, whose characters can switch gender or turn into pandas. But the concept is so hilarious that no story could possibly live up to it. Where do you go after someone has turned into a boat? In this case, Teen Boat joins the football team, competes in a boat race, and tries to find other boats like him. It's engaging enough but not especially funny. There are, of course, puns, and they're all unforgivable. ("I've always been the boat of everyone's jokes.") A greater problem than bad puns is that Teen Boat's actions are often indefensible. He passes over his best friend to date a cheerleader, then immediately asks his friend to dump her date and dance with him. The plot moves much too slowly, but sometimes the book is exactly as ridiculous as it ought to be. When Teen Boat is stranded in the middle of a dry football field, with a tiny team uniform on his prow, even a terrible pun can't spoil the joke. Bright spots aside, this parody of self-obsessed teen protagonists is so successful it gives readers no cause to root for the hero. (Graphic fantasy. 12-15)

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    • School Library Journal

      September 1, 2015

      Gr 5-8-Teen Boat, a teen boy who can transform into a yacht, returns for another adventure in this sequel to Teen Boat! (Clarion, 2012). When given the chance to live full-time as a boat in Boatlantis with his submarine father, he is torn. Is he a boat or a boy? Teen Boat also finds a nemesis in TeenBot, a boy who's part-boy, part-robot, and part captain's chair. Then Teen Boat finds out that his best friend Joey descends from a boat's mortal enemy: icebergs. Older, savvier readers may not embrace the goofy concept, but younger tweens and teens will enjoy the numerous boat puns and the bright, cheerful cartoon illustrations. With its wholesome hero and high school love triangles, this work is "Archie" (DC Comics) with boats. VERDICT A light, silly read with middle school appeal.-Lisa Goldstein, Brooklyn Public Library

      Copyright 2015 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
Kindle restrictions

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:3.5
  • Lexile® Measure:500
  • Interest Level:6-12(MG+)
  • Text Difficulty:0-2

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