If You Find This, by Matthew Baker
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Mixing mystery and adventure in the tradition of Louis Sachar, Avi, and E.L. Konigsburg, If You Find This is the story of unlikely friendships, unexpected bravery and eleven-year-old Nicholas Funes's quest to prove his grandfather's treasure is real.Nicholas is a math and music genius with no friends and a huge problem: His father has lost his job, and they'll have to sell their house, which holds the only memory Nicholas has of his younger brother. Just in time, Nicholas's senile grandfather arrives, filled with tales of priceless treasure he has hidden somewhere in town--but where?With the help of misfit classmates, two grandfathers, a ghosthouse, hidden messages, séances, and an uncanny mind for numbers, Nicholas stages a nursing home breakout, tangles with high schoolers in smugglers' tunnels, and gets swept up in a duel with the biggest bullies in the neighborhood. Will it be enough to find the treasure and save his house?
If You Find This, by Matthew Baker- Amazon Sales Rank: #704990 in Books
- Brand: Baker, Matthew
- Published on: 2015-03-17
- Released on: 2015-03-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x 1.13" w x 5.75" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 368 pages
From School Library Journal Gr 4–6—Eleven-year-old Nicholas is a music and math genius who has trouble relating to most people. Baker has placed small italicized musical dynamics (forte, pianissimo, crescendo) throughout the text, emphasizing Nick's thought patterns. When his family home is in jeopardy of being sold, Nick takes it upon himself to find legendary family heirlooms, hoping they can save his house. Despite his lack of social skills, he gains the help of other social misfits from school as well as two grandfathers sprung from a nursing home, one being his senile Grandpa Rose. Their hideout is a crumbling, haunted house where they all work at unraveling the clues to finding the treasure. Throughout comical, quirky scenarios involving a séance, a confrontation with high school toughs in smuggler tunnels, and romps in a graveyard where the final clue and solution is found, Baker maintains a steady pace. Written with tongue-in-cheek humor, the characters engage in some unsafe and unsavory practices as they go about their adventures—dueling with firecrackers, setting fire to stolen backpacks, lying, and stealing. In the hands of savvy, mature readers, this intriguing and multilayered novel will provoke interesting discussions.—D. Maria LaRocco, Cuyahoga Public Library, Strongsville, OH
Review "Lively, entertaining and satisfying." ""Kirkus Reviews""""Smugglers caves, graveyards, ghost houses, seances, and...maps come together to make an intriguing mystery for the group to solve as the characters wrestle with their past selves in hopes of a better future. The story is enhanced with musical and mathematical notations (terms like "forte" and "piano" appear as subscript throughout, modifying actions and dialogue), giving readers a glimpse into Nicholas's impressive brain and adding an unusual layer of interest and beauty to debut author Baker's storytelling." ""Publishers Weekly""""This is a book of insight and treasures." ""The Bulletin"""
About the Author Matthew Baker's stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, New England Review, The Kenyon Review, and Best of the Net, and been shortlisted in Best American Short Stories. He has held creative writing fellowships through the Fulbright Commission, the MacDowell Colony, and Vanderbilt University, among others. He was born and lives in Michigan. If You Find This is his first novel.
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13 of 18 people found the following review helpful. This is NOT a book for kids. Too much mature content. By Amazonbooks4me There are scenes in this book featuring fights (punching, kicking, bleeding, etc.), the use of fireworks to duel, theft, trespassing, fire starting, graffiti, suicide, homophobia, underage smoking, and name calling (even in song form). In a world where social media is trying to encourage kids to not be bullies, this book holds all the wrong character building messages for tween readers. There is even talk between characters about abortion and whether it's right or wrong. That is NOT a topic that should be in a children's book at all.I am not understanding all the 5 star reviews here. This was a very poorly written book. Characters are boring or weird beyond belief. Dialog is too short and consists mostly of name calling or expressing bizarre thoughts or opinions. Descriptions of setting and places are vague. The narrative voice and vocabulary is weak and immature. I do NOT think this book should be categorized as a Children's book. It is most definitely a Young Adult book because of the suggestive, mature topics throughout.The cover if this book is advertised as "the treasure hunt of a lifetime". It is NOT! I was so utterly disappointed. While there is a treasure in the end, there is really no "hunt". Just a lot of wondering and speculation that is not very logical; especially when the main character, Nick, is supposed to be a math and music genius. I don't understand why the author didn't use this character's smarts in the story. Why did the supposed treasure hunt have nothing to do with intricate puzzles and riddles dealing with music or numbers?There were no clues for the characters or the reader to solve. There was no sting of clues to follow - only one set of numbers and a short riddle of a sentence. I expected a real, honest-to-goodness search for treasure that took Nick, Jordan and Zeke all over town; with one clue leading them to another and another. In a way they just end up stumbling on the treasure with none of the characters really thinking anything out methodical or logically among themselves. This was not a "hunt" by any stretch of the imagination.The characters are underdeveloped and not likeable. All the kids that go to Nick's school are bullies, full of hate, or are just plain weird. Nick's locker partner, Zeke, is supposedly gay (he is called "Boylover") and he draws mermaids with silver marker on his arms. I'm not saying him being gay is weird, it's the mermaid drawings. I think it's very offensive that the author has Jordan (Zeke's supposed friend) calling him such a hurtful name. Um, and what kid draws mermaids on themselves? It's like the author is trying to make fun of people who are different. And Jordan also calls Zeke, who is half Korean, "Flatface". I think that's highly offensive and incredibly racist to anyone of Asian ancestry. How did this author get away with this? He should be ashamed of himself!I don't see how anyone could like or relate to the characters of Nick, Jordan, or Zeke. The character of Jordan is just a kid everyone hates and fights with because he is mean and calls everyone names. Zeke is a thief who steal stuff from kids and sells it all for money. And Nick thinks his dead brother, who was a still-born baby, is a tree out in his backyard. Yes…a tree. Firstly, I'm pretty sure it's illegal to bury a human in your backyard. Secondly, no kid, unless he had a severe mental illness would believe that he could talk through a tree to his dead brother and hear his brother's responses back through the "music" that the tree's rustling leaves make. Oh, and Nick talks to the tree using a violin??? It's just so seriously stupid! I knew this when I picked up the book to read, but I thought somehow this would be woven in beautifully and have some meaning to the story. It doesn't. It's just insulting to the reader.And on a side note - The word "high-tops" is repeated in this book like a million times. This author must have a high-top obsession, because all the characters wear high-tops. No one just wears "shoes" or "sneakers" or "tennis shoes". This author either has a very poor vocab and can't come up with another word for shoes, or he's nuts about high-tops. And the only food anyone seems to eat is canned peas. I'm pretty sure no one likes canned peas, especially not kids. This is the food that the boys bring to the grandfathers they are trying to hide. No one can survive on canned peas for months!Major gripe - I don't play an instrument and am not educated on the terms of playing music and so I didn't understand what was up with all the music terms (forte - play loudly, piano - play softly, da capo - return to the beginning, mezzo-forte, glissando, etc) that were printed under ALL the verbs in this book. If you pick the book up and flip to any page you will see these music terms (very small print) under all of the verbs ("said", "laughing", "knocking", "clattering", "humming", ect.) It is the most annoying thing I've ever seen done in a book. My friend plays 7 instruments and when I showed her this book, even she thought it was stupid. I can't believe the author would expect kids to read each and every music term as they're reading the story. I just ignored them all, but it was super hard.
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Poor writing, poor characters, random plot points, and content far too mature for elementary students. By Sunshine on a Rainy Day SUMMARY: Nicholas has had several difficulties in his life. His younger brother died, his father lost his job, and now they must sell their house. Nicholas does not want to leave his house because his baby brother was buried in the backyard under a large tree. He believes the tree to be the spirit of his brother. His grandfather has shown up after getting out of prison. But not all is well with his grandfather who is failing from dementia. At school, Nicholas is a genius, excelling at math and violin, but has no friends. He spends every day eating his lunch in the bathroom by himself. His grandfather claims to have hidden a trunk of heirlooms. If Nicholas helps him find them, he would have money to keep the house. Through many crazy events, Nicholas teams up with two other misfits for school as well as one of their grandfathers to find the treasure. Through the hunt, he gets to know his grandfather as well as himself.THE GOOD: There are parts to the hunt that are quite interesting and keep you riveted. I desperately wanted to get to the end to see what was in the trunk.THE NOT AS GOOD: Where to begin? First, the writing of the story is poor. The sentences are choppy and the description is extremely weak. The author uses the same descriptive words over and over and over again. Then there is the issue of the author's use of musical and mathematical words throughout the entire story. This is overdone to the nth degree. When a person is speaking, the author uses forte or piano in parentheses throughout the book. This is extremely distracting. Often, throughout the book, Nicholas will stop to explain a musical term and how it must explain the mood of the moment. A couple of these might have worked, but there were far too many. During the dialogue, instead of making it a natural part of the action going on, the author uses "he said" and "she said" for every single piece of dialogue! This brought me to annoyance within the first chapter.Almost every single character was unlikeable. They were bullies, thieves, criminals, snobbish, or just plain weird. There is a fine line between quirky and weird. Baker crossed over this line several times. Nicholas has a very strange belief that his brother is the tree in the backyard. He plays his violin as a way to communicate to the tree, and Nicholas believes the tree speaks back to him. Jordan is mean to people because he believes he will become his abusive father. Tragedy was overdone excessively. Everyone had a major sob story which was used to excuse their bad behavior. The book was full of extremely unrealistic bad behavior such as daily stealing and bullying. Plot twists were strange, random, and unrealistic. The bullies never receive what they deserve. Everyone just shrugs off their bad behavior. And I was highly disturbed by the fact that Nichoas kept his grandfather in an abandoned house living off of canned fruits and vegetables. The grandfather becomes ill because of this. The ending is such a complete let down that I was mad at myself for completing the book to get to the ending.AGE RECOMMENDATION: This book is advertized for ages 8-12 which is completely inappropriate for the maturity of the story for the following content:A dead baby buried in the backyard, bullying (lots), stealing(lots), a seance complete with a pentagram, dead bodies being dumped by gangsters and descriptions of the condition of the bodies, gangs, death, fighting, and discussions about abortion, euthanasia, war, and violence.This book should not be read read by anyone below middle school age.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. This Book is an Heirloom By R. Wetzel This is a great book. I got it for my son, but ended up reading the whole thing myself. It's for sure more "literary" than many of the books published for kids and some of the themes reflect real life in ways that are best suited to an older tween and not a 4th grader. So, while I loved this book, my son, now 9, won't be reading it for awhile. But I hope he'll be the kind of kid who will truly understand it, when he's old enough to comprehend it.The prose is lovely and the story intrguing. The characters are diverse and real. You come to love and understand them, even the ones with more glaring faults. The treasure is the journey and reading this book was a bit of golden time.
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