Summer reading entry one: Fat Kid Rules the World

               The story begins with the main character Troy Billings who is an overweight 17 year old with no friends.  He is standing at a subway station in New York City and is planning to throw himself into the oncoming train until he meets and unlikely friend in Curt MacCrae who he meets in the subway.  They become the best of friends.  The main conflict is that Curt asks Troy to play drums in his band and play in but he doesn't know how to play drums, and on top of that they have a gig that is only 5 weeks away.   I think that not only will Troy discover that you don’t have to be skinny of like other people to fit.  I also think that there band will be a success and that when he gets on stage people will not judge what he looks like they will only judge him by the music that he play when he is on stage.  One connection I made very quickly to this book is the old saying “Don’t judge a book by its cover”.  One other connection I made to the book is the movie the rocker were its about a band and one of the members is overweight and gets nervous about going on stage but when they get on stage people don’t care because the music they play.