Listening to different people from the school share their experiences with Paulie adds to his bigger-than-life personality. The Next Great Paulie Fink is told in multiple voices and interviews. Paulie never showed up for 7th grade and no one knows why. In his former classmate's minds, he's a legend. Paulie was a jokester who made school fun. On her first day at school, she keeps hearing about Paulie Fink. She’s not thrilled about this move from New York to Vermont. #librariansofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #mglit #mgbooks #ilovemg #readaroundmg #bookstagram #bookreview #amreadingĬaitlyn is the new girl in a small rural town where she’ll be starting 7th grade.

Side note: this book also addresses the very real problem of rural schools closing and consolidating. Don't miss this book! Thanks to my student Jesse who gave me the final push I needed to pick it up.

Caitlyn is put in charge of a reality TV show-style competition to find the next great Paulie Fink, but along the way she discovers truths about herself and others and ultimately the power of stories - those we tell and the parts we leave out. I was completely absorbed in the school-based story of Caitlyn's experience in a new small, rural school in VT where everyone misses their classmate Paulie Fink who was a ridiculous prankster. The newest book by THE NEXT GREAT PAULIE FINK is my favorite sort of #mglit book. It’s filled with unconventional fun, heartwarming situations and GOATS. ⚠️: do not read this book unless you want to giggle uncontrollably and be filled with joy. In the end, we get to fully know exactly one person only: ourselves. 'Everything we know is always incomplete. about others, our communities, and ourselves. Told via multiple voices, interviews, and other documents, The Next Great Paulie Fink is a lighthearted yet surprisingly touching exploration of how we build up and tear down our own myths. Who was this kid, anyway-prankster, performance artist, philosopher, or fool? Caitlyn's quest to understand Paulie is about to teach her more about herself than she ever imagined. They'll find their next great Paulie Fink through a reality-show style competition, to be judged by the only objective person around: Caitlyn, who never even met Paulie Fink.

Her classmates are in for a shock of their own: Paulie Fink-the class clown, oddball, troublemaker, and evil genius-is gone this year.Īs stories of Paulie's hijinks unfold, his legend builds, until they realize there's only one way to fill the Paulie-sized hole in their class. When Caitlyn Breen enters the tiny Mitchell School in rural Mitchell, Vermont, she is a complete outsider: the seventh grade has just ten other kids, and they've known each other since kindergarten.

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