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Forde: Fat Boy Swim

Fatboy swim by Catherine Forde

Fatboy swim was a very enjoyable book about a boy called Jim Kelly who gets bullied very badly by everyone in his school because he is lardy and fat. He has a hard time at the start of the book because every one in the school say things about him and the teachers don’t seem to care very much. The one person who can help him is a priest called Gi Joe who teaches him to swim. He doesn’t know this yet but his dad was a great swimmer and Jim is the same. Jim has one other talent that he doesn’t want anyone to know that is cooking. His cooking skills also help him get a girlfriend who was his first real friend. I really enjoyed fatboy swim because there was always something happening in the novel and at some bits the novel was very exciting. It was a very good book and I would recommend it to anyone.
By Andrew  ( St. Ninians High School)