Back To School YA & Middle Grade Book Blog Hop ~ Karmack Review and ebook Givewaway

Hi everyone, and welcome to the Back To School YA & MG Blog Hop hosted by I <3 Middle Grade Books. Paul here today, and I am pleased to be back after my…ummm…interesting interview with Karmack and to be a part of this 1st ever blog hop. A special thanks goes out to Ann T. Bugg (aka June Kramin) for organizing this. If you don’t know Ann, she is the author of the Before Happily Ever After series. You can read my review of book 4, Down the River and Awakening Rose, here.

Today I am happy to be featuring a wonderful middle grade book by author J.C. Whyte called Karmack. Karmack is aimed at children ages 8-12 and is perfect for classroom read-alouds. Karmack was released in June by Muse It Up Publishing. Now for the Goodreads blurb:

Everyone knows Curtis “Sully” Sullenburg is the toughest kid at Higgins Elementary. For years, he and his gang have tormented students and teachers alike with their pranks. And for the most part, they’ve gotten away with it. But all that changes when a strange little creature appears on the scene. From that point on, pranks start coming back like boomerangs, smacking Sully’s gang right in their fifth grade butts! 

Sully is the only one who can see this creature, which he names Karmack. The little guy claims to be a nature spirit whose job is to balance all the bad karma the boys have amassed over the years. Because if Karmack fails, these boys will undoubtedly suffer “dreadful, awful doom”. Just like that kid who shot at crows with his BB gun – one day he crashed his bike into a pigeon coop and emerged as the Abominable Snowman of bird poop! Yeah, that kind of doom.

Sully soon realizes he must save not only himself but his friends from Karmack’s doom, even though they have no idea why they keep getting boomeranged!

Now for a bit about the author, J.C. Whyte:

J.C. Whyte discovered her love for writing at the age of eleven when her 6th grade teacher told the class to write a poem about a sport. She knew her classmates would probably choose a popular sport like baseball or football, so J.C. chose to write a funny poem about golf. To her surprise, the teacher really loved it and encouraged J.C. to continue writing. So she did. 

For more about Ms. Whyte, head on over to her Goodreads page (and feel free to become a fan while you’re there).

Now for my review:

What I liked best: I loved the story being told through the eyes of the bully. Many times stories involving bullies are told through the eyes of the individual being bullied. I thought this was really, really clever and made for a very interesting story. Well done

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