NERDS 2 M: is for Mama’s boy by Michael Buckley is an enjoyable fiction book. Many of the characters have special abilities which they call upgrades. For example, Duncan has the codename gluestick because he can stick to walls. After trying to stop a bank robbery all of the NERDS have to lose their upgrades, be without them for three days and try to live as normal kids. I saw the frustration they must have felt firsthand when my best friend broke his ankle and lost his “super speed”. He broke his ankle right before national that he could have won. Now that he has healed, he has to train with the regular kids on the team. No more “super speed” for him for now but it will return just like the NERDS will get their upgrades back.
This part of NERDS makes me think of another friend of mine who likes to run every day and train regularly. Last year, he got a case of tendonitis. He lost the ability to train daily and then got slower. He was also very frustrated about not being able to run. My friend, unlike the NERDS lost more than three days, he lost the rest of the season and part of the summer. He came back this fall just as well and I think the NERDS can return just as well if they stay focused.
Another part of the book that makes me think about my life was when two of the NERDS saw their neighbor’s son for the first time. Duncan had seen the bank robber and gave a description to his supervisor and then he saw the neighbor’s son. Duncan recognized him right away as the bank robber. I have a friend who is very very skinny and not that tall. He would talk about his father and refer to him by his nickname “Little”. One day I met his father; unlike Duncan I would never have thought that this man was “Little”. My friend’s dad is 6 feet 4 inches and anything but little. He could easily play football or Santa Claus. Reading this scene made me laugh because you can’t always recognize someone from a description.
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