By:
Graham Gardner
Grade Level:
Inventing Elliot (Gardner, 2003) is an exceptional piece of young adult literature. It has received 13 positive reviews, and is a winner of the 2004 Branford Boase Award and the 2004 Wirral Paperback of the Year Award in the United Kingdom. Inventing Elliot is an extremely valuable novel for young adults to read, because it deals with themes of bullying and victimization in schools, which are of utmost importance and relevance in the lives of adolescents today.