So far, I don’t like the book Surviving the Applewhites. First, it starts off really slow. The book isn’t even that large, we’re on chapter 4, and we haven’t even gotten to the build up parts yet. Second, it includes bad-doings. This book is about a kid who gets kicked out of every school he goes too, looks sort of creepy, may have even burnt down one of his schools, and smokes cigarettes. Now the goal is to get him to not be a bad student anymore, and have him learn to be a good student by taking after this girl named E.D., but telling us he looks like a wack job, burns down places, and smokes is a little excessive. Third, this book doesn’t focus on one thing at a time. At one point they will talking about Jake, then boom, a switch-eroo happens, and a girl is eating cereal. It confuses me, and I wish they wouldn’t do that. This isn’t the worst book I’ve ever read, and it has a nice plot, but it’s confusing and slow. I hope it gets better down the road!