I Totally Funniest :-)

This month I read I Totally Funniest, by James Patterson.

Jamie Grimm is a boy who survived a car crash. He lost his parents, sister and his ability to walk. After the crash he moved in with his aunt and uncle in Long Beach, New York, and got an after school job at his uncle’s diner. Comedy has always helped Jamie in the past so he enters the “Planet’s Funniest Kid Comic Contest’’. He faces challenges along the way dealing with his school bully (and cousin) Stevie Cosgrove, his anxiety of running out of good jokes, and Hurricane Sam.

When the day of the contest comes Jamie keeps thinking he will choke on stage and lose the contest. After Jamie is announced into the final four of the contest he heads home and his ego sky rockets and he was really rude to his friends. He heads over to his uncle’s diner when a storm warning flashes on the TV. Jamie and his aunt, uncle, and Stevie go to a shelter. While everyone his in the shelter Jamie decides to lighten the mood by telling a few jokes. A little while after, Jamie’s friends arrive and he apologizes. After the storm was over Jamie went to his uncle’s diner to see if it got destroyed by the storm and it did. School was canceled for a while but when Jamie went back to school everybody told the jokes Jamie told the first night of being in the shelter. It was time for the finale so Jamie went to the contest in Hollywood. Everyone there was at the top of their game. When it was time for Jamie to go on stage he told his life story and how hard his life is and how in some ways he was lucky. The results were in the judge tore open an envelope and said Jamie was the winner. Jamie won his own TV show, ten thousand dollars, and a big trophy.

This was a great book. I thought the story had a good balance of drama and comedy. It was great and I would recommend it to anybody.

- Vinny A.