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Best Nerds Forever

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Book Synopsis

From bestselling author James Patterson comes the next middle grade hit with this ghostly adventure story.

I’m Finn McAllister, I’m a normal middle schooler, and on June sixth I died.

I know, I know – you weren’t expecting me to die so soon. Me neither. But dying is just the beginning of my story. You see, now I’m a ghost!

I don’t have to go to school. I can play as many video games as I want. And I can try every ice cream flavor in the store.

I’ve made a new friend, too. She’s also a ghost. It’s pretty neat, huh?

Only thing is, I have some unfinished business. And until I, well, finish it, I can’t really move on…

Our Review Panel says...

This is a book for secondary school children.

In the first chapter of this book the main character Finn dies. Finn is a normal boy attending a normal school – until one day that all changes. He decides to go on a bike ride and a van knocks him off the top of a cliff and he dies from his injuries.

For the rest of the story Finn is a ghost who is trying to come to terms with the fact he has passed away and the impact it is having on the friends and family he left behind. As he is doing this he finds another friend who I also a ghost Izzy. They help each other to complete their ‘unfinished business’ before they move on. The story does have a surprise ending but we won’t spoil it for you!

The book talks about death, ghosts, unfinished business and moving on the heaven. I think any adult considering using this book with children would have to consider the impact that the content could have on those pupils. It is a piece of fiction but it would definitely open pupils minds to the concept of death and what happens when people die. This might be a difficult subject for pupils to read about and understand – making it most suitable for KS3 children to read at the discretion of guiding adults.