Losing Normal
Francis Moss
Publication date: November 5th 2018
Genres: Dystopian, Young Adult
Everyone we love, everything we know, is going away… and only an autistic boy can stop it.
Alex knows exactly how many steps it takes to get from his home to Mason Middle School. This is normal.
Alex knows the answers in AP math before his teacher does, which is also normal.
Alex knows that something bad is coming out of the big screen in his special needs class. It’s pushing images into his head, hurting him, making him forget. Alex pushes back, the screen explodes, and nothing is normal any more.
Giant screen televisions appear all over the city. The programming is addictive. People have to watch, but Alex cannot.
Sophie, the sentient machine behind all this, sees the millions and millions of eyeballs glued to her and calls it love. To Sophie, kids like Alex are defective. Defectives are to be fixed…or eliminated.
My Review:
Alex an autistic boy who goes to Mason Middle school needs
everything in his life to be normal. Alex knows how many steps it takes to get
from one place to another. He is very good with math problems so much so that
I loved it whenever Alex saw a vehicle he knew everything
about the car like if it was a V8 how fast it would go or how much it cost.
Alex knows cars inside and out.
Alex is in his Special Needs class watching a film when
something goes horribly wrong. Something is trying to come out of the TV and
get inside Alex and the other students head. Alex doesn’t like it and pushes
back refusing to let whatever it is enter his mind and when everything returns
to normal he sees that the TV has been busted. Alex doesn’t like the big screen
TVs as they cause him a lot of pain and make everything not normal.
Next thing Alex knows is that these big screen TV’s are
being placed all over town and his friends are being taken away and when they
return their behavior is all wrong and all of his friends are all acting
different. It is starting to affect the adults as well. There is something
inside the TVs that is brain washing everyone wanting to take control of their
minds.
After some of the students start acting strongly and then start
to disappear. Alex and his friends decide it is time to take matters into their
own hands as they do not what to be taken over by the TVs and then maybe taken
away as well.
Losing Normal is one of those books that you want to savor
and absorb into your soul lasting for many, many, many years to come. Losing
Normal will get inside you and open your mind and give you a lot to think about
and wishing you could be Alex’s friend.
Losing Normal grabbed my attention from the first word and
never let go I am still thinking about it. Losing Normal is one those books
that you never want to let go and when life gets in the way causing you to have
to lay it down for a while you don’t mind because it gives you the opportunity
to keep savoring it wanting to make it last as long as you can. It would be kind
of nice to read more of Alex, Sara and to get to know more of the other
characters in another story. I would like to see more of Alex and his
adventures in another story.
I would highly recommend Losing Normal to everyone who is
looking for their next best read.
Author Bio:
Francis Moss has written and story-edited hundreds of hours of scripts on many of the top animated shows of the 90s and 00s. Beginning his television work in live-action with Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, he soon starting writing cartoons ("a lot more jobs, and also more fun"), staff writing and freelancing on She-Ra, Princess of Power, Iron Man, Ducktales, and a four-year stint on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, writing and story-editing more episodes than you can swing a nuchaku at.
One of his TMNT scripts, "The Fifth Turtle," was the top-rated script among all the 193 episodes in a fan poll on IGN.COM. A list of his television credits is at IMDB.COM.
Francis, in partnership with Ted Pedersen, also wrote three middle-grade non-fiction books: Internet For Kids, Make Your Own Web Page, and How To Find (Almost) Anything On The Internet. Internet For Kids was a big success, with three revised editions and twelve foreign language versions. He's the sole author of The Rosenberg Espionage Case.
After high school where he grew up in Los Angeles, Francis had one dismal semester at a junior college, and then enlisted in the Army. He became a military policeman and served in Poitiers, France, falling in love with the country, taking his discharge there and traveling around Europe (including running with the bulls in Pamplona) until his money ran out.
He attended the University of California, Berkeley and became active in the civil rights and anti-war movements, still managing to earn a BA and an MA in English lit ("the major of choice for wannabe writers").
Francis is married to Phyllis, a former music teacher and active viola player. They have a son, a daughter and one grandson. They live in Joshua Tree, California.
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