Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe by Preston Norton is an exceptional read. It is such a fun and funny read, but also touching, emotional, and thought-provoking. It is a story about figuring out your place in the world while trying to make it a better place. It is about taking the risk to try and change the status quo, even when everything seems to be working against you. I really can't say enough good things about this book. From Amazon:
Cliff Hubbard is a huge loser. Literally. His nickname at Happy
Valley High School is Neanderthal because he's so enormous-6'6" and 250
pounds to be exact. He has nobody at school, and life in his
trailer-park home has gone from bad to worse ever since his older
brother's suicide.
There's no one Cliff hates
more than the nauseatingly cool quarterback Aaron Zimmerman. Then Aaron
returns to school after a near-death experience with a bizarre claim:
while he was unconscious he saw God, who gave him a list of things to do
to make Happy Valley High suck less. And God said there's only one
person who can help: Neanderthal.
To his own
surprise, Cliff says he's in. As he and Aaron make their way through the
List, which involves a vindictive English teacher, a mysterious
computer hacker, a decidedly unchristian cult of Jesus Teens, the local
drug dealers, and the meanest bully at HVHS, Cliff feels like he's part
of something for the first time since losing his brother. But fixing a
broken school isn't as simple as it seems, and just when Cliff thinks
they've completed the List, he realizes their mission hits closer to
home than he ever imagined.
Razor sharp, moving, and outrageously funny, Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe is an unforgettable story of finding your place in an imperfect world.
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