Hyper to the Max

Reviewed by: Cidney Mayes - Memorial Middle School Library, South Portland, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: November 7, 2017

Review

Max is a kid who can't sit still. One day he wakes up before school with the Super Fidgets, and comes up with a game to preoccupy his mind in order to help him focus. Max swears an oath that whenever anyone speaks to him, he must reply with a rhyming sentence - otherwise he will have to give up his entire comic book collection! Max tries to avoid speaking to anyone, but Mandy Beth, Max's pesky neighbor, is determined to trip him up. Max is a quick thinker, and comes up with many rhymes, but will he lose his game after being challenged to rhyme with "orange"?

Hyper to the Max is the fourth book in the Maximus Todd series. This is a good beginning chapter book for young readers, with helpful and comical illustrations to help visualize the plot and character emotions. Large and diverse fonts also will appeal to an elementary school reader. A good addition to any library.

Overall Book Score: very good