Live large with James Patterson's winning follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestsellerMiddle School, The Worst Years of My Life.

 

After sixth grade, the very worst year of his life, Rafe Khatchadorian thinks he has it made in seventh grade. He's been accepted to art school in the big city and imagines a math-and-history-free fun zone. Wrong! It's more competitive than Rafe ever expected, and to score big in class, he needs to find a way to turn his boring life into the inspiration for a work of art. His method? Operation: Get a Life! Anything he's never done before, he's going to do it, from learning to play poker to going to a modern art museum. But when his newest mission uncovers secrets about the family Rafe's never known, he has to decide if he's ready to have his world turned upside down.

◎全球最暢銷的作家──詹姆斯‧派特森2011年最新青少年小說（系列） 
 

詹姆斯‧派特森作品在全球熱銷的程度令人咋舌（已突破二億五千萬本，勝過哈利波特），也拿下許多重要的文學獎項。2004年，他開始為兒童及青少年寫書。這類書最大的挑戰，就是鮮少有作者能完全擺脫自己目前已有的認知、價值觀及生命經驗，進入到一個對未來充滿未知的小孩或似懂非懂的青少年身上，用他們的腦袋思考，用他們的口吻說話──這個系列做到了！而且非常成功。我們幾乎很難找到其他作品能更勝於他。而這麼成功的作品，經常都帶著濃度很高的自傳元素，寫實風格強烈。 

 

◎細膩勾繪難解難言的前青春期心事 
 

書中主角瑞福，其實是許多青春期男孩的縮影，在上一集裡，我們已看出，他的運動能力不特別突出，功課不特別好，家世不特別顯赫，更重要的是，交朋友的能力也不怎麼樣！到了《Middle School 2 我的進化日記》裡，雪上加霜的是瑞福和媽媽、妹妹居然得搬到離家甚遠的大城市裡居住！這下他要怎麼交到新朋友？展開新生活？ 

作者用第一人稱的述事口吻，描繪出青少年最在意的同儕相處問題，全書文字生動活潑，讀者也能有所共鳴，了解到：「原來不是只有我這樣！」