Benny and Omar

by Eoin Colfer

Paperback, 2001

Status

Available

Call number

823.914

Publication

O'Brien Pr (2001), 240 pages

Description

Twelve-year-old Benny, a hurling fanatic, moves to Tunisia, North Africa, when his father is transferred and has a hard time adjusting to the new land until he meets Omar.

User reviews

LibraryThing member mrs.kehoe

Hurling-mad Benny has moved to Tunisia with his family and is a fish out of water. Just outside the compound where he lives is a boy named Omar who has a very different life from Benny's. With no common language, they communicate through phrases from 1990's television. Benny can't seem to stay on

the right path and his growing friendship with Omar isn't helping. Funny and heartbreaking.

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LibraryThing member SamMusher

There's a lot to enjoy about this book, but it was too Irish for *me*, let alone most American middle schoolers of my acquaintance. The slang was distracting, and the sport of hurling without any explanation was impenetrable. With a glossary and/or foreword for American audiences a la the Georgia

Nicolson books, it could work much better.

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LibraryThing member katie1802

read in primary school, remember it being good, recommended.

LibraryThing member Cheryl_in_CC_NV

First we Americans get culture shock meeting Benny Shaw, an Irish lad. Then he gets culture shock when he's relocated to Tunisia and meets an orphan scrabbling for survival on the streets outside the ex-pats' compound. Funny, insightful, sad, exciting, scary, funny some more, and very

thought-provoking.

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