Life can be a major drag, right? Especially when you're a teen. What is Going Bovine About and Why Should I Care? And sure, maybe grab a tissue or two while you're at it. So if you enjoy books that incorporate humor, adventure, fantasy, and weigh almost one whole pound, you get your hands on a copy of Going Bovine, pronto. Printz Award, which honors the best book written for teens each year. But you don't have to take our word for it-this book won the 2010 Michael L. See? We told you there'd be laughs.Īuthor Libba Bray specializes in hysterical non-sequiturs, actually funny puns, and a conversational style that makes reading feel like hanging out with a particularly funny friend. He's accompanied by a germaphobic gamer dwarf with an afro, a punk-rock angel with a sugar habit, and a Norse god trapped in a garden gnome's body. Published in 2009, Going Bovine is a dark comedy that follows a hallucinated epic quest to save the universe as imagined by Cameron, a sullen sixteen-year-old who is dying of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a.k.a. But that's it, we promise-and you'll definitely laugh way more often. But before you write it off as another sad-sack story, rest assured that this book is also hilarious, full of adventure, and you'll only cry, like, twice. In the interest of full disclosure, we feel like we should let you know that Going Bovineis a book about a dying teen.
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