Godless
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When sixteen-year-old Jason Bock and his friends create their own religion to worship the town's water tower, what started out as a joke begins to take on a power of its own.
Publisher:
New York : - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages:
198
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
0689862784, 1416908161, 9781416908166, 9780689862786
Language:
English
Awards & Distinctions:
Illinois Abraham Lincoln High School Book Award Nominee, 2007 ; National Book Award, 2004
Suitability:
Ages 12 and up
Lexile Number:
700
Statement of responsibility:
Pete Hautman
Physical description:
198 p. ; 22 cm.
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Add a CommentA microcosm view of religion. A charismatic soul has an idea/divine inspiration/a blow to the head and gets an idea of god, and what follows when he "spreads the word." We meet a fanatic, a dabbler, a follower; see a division of ideas and branching of sects and plenty of theological musings. I can see people struggling with the faith they were born into finding this novel a relief, that it's okay to question and even eventually decide their parent's religion is not their own. The religion was clever and amusingly scifi. And hello, I now see water towers everywhere