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GUY TIME by Sarah Weeks

GUY TIME

by Sarah Weeks

Pub Date: June 30th, 2000
ISBN: 0-06-028365-3
Publisher: HarperCollins

In a fluffy sequel to Regular Guy (1999), Weeks propels her clueless seventh grader into both a hare-brained scheme to reunite his estranged parents and the rocky terra incognita of co-ed friendship. Disgusted by his mother’s oddball taste in dating partners, Guy puts up only weak resistance to his buddy Buzz’s suggestion that he forge a letter of apology from her to his dad. Meanwhile, a forgotten remark about a gravid bullfrog is not only threatening to nip his relationship with classmate Autumn in the bud, but has put him in the way of heavy retribution from her tough friend Lana. Weeks doesn’t stray far from sitcom-style formula, but she saves Guy from major embarrassment and weaves in entertainingly gross humor, highlighted by an all-too-detailed frog dissection in science class and a reference to a revolting party trick Guy’s otherwise straight-arrow father does with raw oysters. After air-clearing confessions, tears, and heart-to-hearts, Dad moves back into the neighborhood, if not back into the house, while Guy and Autumn finally get to the movies together (only to run into Buzz and Lana). Light, readable, familiar fare. (Fiction. 10-12)