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Menye ye Abis baca Alvin Ho aja bikin reviewnya sampe kayak gini,
Ahey!
Maen ngebayangin anak aja, Cari calon bapaknya dulu sana!
ngomong sama cermin This was a lot of fun to read, with vivid characters from Alvin himself to his extended family to his fascinating classmates.
Honestly, I'm a little jealous of Alvin, because as a kid I wanted an older brother and to be a middle child, . . though I was a pretty social second grader, so I can't imagine how debilitating the performance anxiety / selective mutism must be, especially at an age where children already feel like they don't have a lot of say in their lives.


But having worked with elementary school students for years, I feel like Alvin and his friends don't quite come across as kids so much as how older people i.
e. , teenagers and up tend to think of kids, There are quite a few jokes that play on how literalminded and naive he is not in a mocking way necessarily, more of an "aw how precious, please never grow up" but at the same time, he uses several turns of phrase that I certainly wouldn't have understood at that age even though I read a lot and my parents spoke relatively fluent English.
I also don't love the internalized sexism "Ruleof being a gentleman is you can't hit girls" girls can't punch, . . though this assumption is proven wrong! even though it's something that I unfortunately do see in my first graders, if not to the extent that Alvin carries it, And some of the actions Alvin takes, while they do convey believably childlike thoughtlessness and lack of general awareness of others, are a little hard to believe when he seems like the kind of kid who would mostly follow the rules and principles he was taught by the adults in his life.


Also, the ending was really frustrating, I'm not sure if it was meant to be a cliffhanger, because I'm sure the situation feels like a big deal to Alvin though it seems fairly trivial to me, having more life experience and having seen some of the other scrapes he's gotten himself into, but it felt like the book just ended abruptly.
Which unfortunately doesn't really make me want to continue the series, So funny and so sweet, With a couple of very good insights about life thrown in for good measure, Alvin Ho, like manynd graders, loves superheroes, baseball, explosions, making mayhem, and digging holes, Like manynd grade boys, hes allergic to girls, But theres one thing you should know about Alvin Ho: hes never spoken a word in school, As Alvin himself puts it, “Even when I try with all my might, I always manage to say nothing at all, My voice works at home, It works in the car, It even works on the school bus, But as soon as I get to school I am as silent as a side of beef, ”

Alvins total silence at school, as you would imagine, presents him with certain difficulties, Show and Tell is a problem hes got the showing down pat but not so much the telling part, Making friends with the other boys in his class is also tricky, Sure, Flea, whose real name is Sophie, is his desk buddy and loves hanging out with him, but that hardly counts since shes, well, a girl,

Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things is the story of how Alvin tries to cleverly circumvent the inconveniences caused by his anxiety.
It is a very funny book, but also a moving depiction of a boy navigating his way through the learning experiences of childhood, a time when school, family, and friends are such a large part of life.
Any children who have ever dealt with anxiety over going to class, meeting new people, or facing difficult situations will be able to identify with Alvin and the challenges he faces, while those readers who cant relate to Alvins perpetual nervousness will still be able to enjoy this immensely entertaining book and in the process will probably see a glimpse of themselves or someone they know in Alvin.


John D.

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Just remember reading this in fourth grade and having a good laugh, One of my favorite reviewers isn't raving about this because she doesn't feel that Alvin is authentic, I have to admit that she probably knows more secondgraders than I do, But to me he felt very real, Not to mention adorable.

His parents, now, . . they're not realistic. How can they be so patient, so understanding It helps that there are grandparents around, I guess, but still, I mean, who but Alvin would believe a whispered remark, heard for the very first time as the boy is headed to piano lessons, that the piano teacher is a witch

Anyway, I loved the whole family.
And I loved the worldbuilding of what it's like to live in Concord Mass, "The best thing about history, as everyone knows, is that you can play it at recess, "

I do wonder who reads this, Is it at a secondgrade reading level Good for family readalouds, I bet a lot of teachers read it to their classes, because they can share ideas prompted about bullies, siblings, anxiety, being a gentleman, etc, and then they can turn their students loose on the sequels, Well, I'm going to look for the sequels, too one book was just not enough for me, read as a family Alvin Ho is a second grader with a fear of pretty much everything: elevators, tunnels, and, as the title would suggest, especially girls, More than anything he's afraid of school, so much so that from the moment he steps off the schoolbus to the moment he steps back on it every day, he never utters a word.
Just like any little kid, Alvin wants to make friends, and he has plenty in common with other second grade boys: he loves superheroes and playing makebelieve and he's terrified of girls.
Over the course of the book, he learns to open up and to stand up for himself in new ways,

Author Lenore Look was asked by her editor to write a "boy version" of her successful middlegradereader Ruby Lu Brave and True, and this is what came of it.
Like in Ruby Lu, Look does a good job here of integrating references to her protagonist's ChineseAmerican family life into the story smoothly, such that Alvin's Chinese heritage is seen as an important part of his everyday, but not all of it.
A lot of the plotaction takes place more around being a little boy than being Chinese

some will think that makes it a worse representation, some will say it makes it better.
I think I land a little more toward the latter, Alvin Ho is this generation's Charlie Brown, He's afraid of almost everything and wants to be included in the activities at school, but since he is afraid to speak at school, most kids just ignore him, In spite of all this, Alvin doesn't come off as a whiny, wimpy kid, In fact, he seems quite intelligent and has sweet, realistic relationships with the people in his family, I love the way he is trying to remember his father's rules for being a gentleman, I laughed when he mentioned all the dead authors who are "still living" in Concord, Massachusetts "which is hard to spell", Growing up in Concord has given Alvin a strong love for the American Revolution, and Alvin's father is a fan of Shakespeare, so the occasional Shakespearean insult sneaks in,

I listened to the audio book which was excellently narrated and gave Alvin the perfect voice, .