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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I had read this years ago and read it again for my Book Club. It was just as great the second time through. So funny and yet it got you thinking about making one's own way in the world (  ) GaylDasherSmith | Sep 28, 2009 |  Son of the Mob is funny reimagining of the Shakespearean "Romeo and Juliet". I loved the story and was total absorbed in the plot. While not a page-turner, Korman writes a very effective and humorous love story. Teens will love this novel as well as its sequel. ( ) SteveMiller | Aug 5, 2009 | Vince, the heart-of-gold son of a mob boss, struggles with reality as he finds out more about what goes on behind the scenes in the family business. The emotions felt by Vince are realistic, but the situations he gets into are not only fantastic, but fantastically funny. I would recommend this book for mature 8th graders and all high schoolers (male and female). (  ) mitchsar | Jul 15, 2009 | Vince Luca is 17 and determined not to get involved in the family business. But it is hard to avoid getting caught up. Things become more difficult whe he starts to date the daughter of the FBI agent who has troubled his father for years. storyLines | Jun 28, 2009 | I liked this story. Vince is a smart kid and that makes the whole story more interesting. You can see how he could easily follow his fathers foot steps and be good at it but he has a heart & a conscience. (  ) bellamia | Jun 24, 2009 | 
Maintaining the balance between situational humor and the real violence and ugliness of organized crime is no easy matter, but Korman pulls it off in frae manner, managing to create genuinely sympathetic characters in Vince's family--people who love him and want the best for him, but who can at the same time call out a hit on someone as casually as ordering a pizza. Laced with running gags--the hijacking of Vince's class-project Web site by his brother is priceless--here's a laugh-out-loud addition to the ranks of dreary teen fiction.
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Although Vince keeps a low profile at school, his family connection brings him unwanted advantages, like the birthday Porsche that gets him arrested on stolen vehicle charges, or the football game in which he makes touchdown after touchdown because word has gotten around and nobody is willing to tackle him. Even private conversations at home have to be carried on in the basement because the FBI has bugged the house and an agent is always listening. Vince's life is inextricably tangled up with the family business, no matter how hard he tries to stay out of it. How can he show them he's serious? Then he meets Kendra, and when she innocently reveals that her father's an FBI agent--that FBI agent--it's a match made in heaven. He thinks.
Gordon Korman, author of (No More Dead Dogs) and over 30 other witty YA novels, is at his best in this Sopranos-style spoof about a teen's home life with the Mob. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell
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