Smith, A. (2015). Grasshopper jungle. London: Electric Monkey.
Austin is a 16-year-old living in Eagling, Iowa. He is in love with his girlfriend
Shann and he is also in love with his best friend Robbie. This book was very weird,
quirky, and strange. Austin is real all American teenage male, who happens to
be bi-sexual but he’s still trying to figure that out. The book includes many
themes of sexuality and friendship from a teenage boy point of view. The book
also includes a giant praying mantises that burst out of plague victims’ bodies
and are about to take over the world. The book was very vulgar. I don’t think I’ve
read the words “horny”, “balls”, or “sperm” so much. The novel over all was
very engaging because it was just so absurd, but you wanted to know what was
going to happen next.
The greatest things about the novel was the first-person narration.
Austin was telling us the story in is retrospective style narration that would
even ventur3e off into omniscient narration. As the reader this gave us so many
angles to the story, we were aware of everything that was going on in the
story. The novel has received many
awards including a Michael L. Printz Award Nominee in 2015, Milwaukee County
Teen Book Award Nominee, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction.
Grade Level Recommendations: 9-12th
Below is a trailer for the book
Below is the author Andrew Smith website
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