So far I’m reading the book Punkzilla by Adam Rapp. I would say that this book is realistic-fiction because it not a true story but it seems like something that can happen but it really didn’t. Rapp was born on June 15, 1968, in Joliet, Illinois. He’s an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, musician, and film director. He wrote 25 plays, 8 young adult novels, 5 screen writes, and directed 4 films. He also graduated from two colleges, St. Johns Military Academy in Delafield, Wisconsin and Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa. I never read any of his other books but I’ve seen the cover to a few books and they look very intriguing. He wrote, The Children and The Wolves, Under the Wolf, Under the Dog, Little Chicago and much more. I feel like reading his other book The Children and The Wolves because the cover caught my attention. Punkzilla mostly deals with family problems and speaks of a young boy who ran away from his military school to go back home with his family mainly because he found out that his brother Peter has cancer.

In the book Punkzilla is a 14 year old. His birth name is Jamie who prefers to be called Punkzilla, and goes to a military school because he was getting into a lot of trouble. Punkzilla has been sending letters to his mom, dad, and brothers but mostly his older brother Peter also known as P. I would probably say that one major event I really liked was how he had to hitch rides from strangers because he got jumped in a bathroom when the bus driver made a stop and the bus had left him behind; so he was going to Portland, Oregon from Memphis, Tennessee. But what really hooked me to this book is that throughout all his struggles, he never left his book of letters behind even though he never sent them after he got jumped. The story mainly takes place with Jamie A.K.A Punkzilla on a run to get home to his brother Peter because that’s who Jamie is mainly concerned about.

Since I’m still reading this book, I personally enjoy reading it because I love books that have to do with journals and letters about what people talk about with their friends and family. I’ll probably end up reading some of his other books to see how those turn out. I would recommend this book to people who like reading journals and letters that other people write. I also recommend this book to anyone who want to know about the things that happen to people when hitching rides from strangers and in the strange things that happen in military schools.