Cal Cameron Spider

by Ann Edwards Cannon

Book Overview

Written by the winner of the Fifth Annual Delacorte Press Prize for an Outstanding Young Adult Novel, this book is about the change of character in a 16 year-old boy after he has met a new girl. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385296355
• ISBN13: 9780385296359
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 133 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Cal Cameron by Day, Spider-Man by Night

Have you ever felt like you don't know where you are? Then you should read Cal Cameron by Day, Spider-Man by Night by A.E. Cannon. This book is about the life of a high school varsity quarterback named Calvin Cameron. In it he hangs out with the "cool" kids during the day and the "geeks" during the night. He meets a girl named Marti who doesn't fit in and starts to like her. He feels like his life is passing him by, but when he is around Marti, her mentally disabled brother, and the school nerd, Wally Geke, he feels like he fits in. Now he must decide to be popular and leave Marti, or be a good person with the "geeks" and lose his friends, Cal Cameron by day or spider-man by night. I like this book because I can make connections to how life is like in school. It is a good book for middle school students. If you like a book that relates to life at school then Cal Cameron by Day, Spider-Man by Night is the book for you.

A Great book this is

Cal is a somewhat smart and halfway nice kid who is a pretty popular kid who is the starting Quarterback for Scenic View High School. One night he is at a fast food resturaunt and a girl named Marti comes in and he thinks she looks like an interesting girl that he wants to know. He does not talk to her besides saying hi, but shes starting to go to his school. He gets to know her and he figures shes a pretty nice girl. Sean and Bear, Cals friends, dont like her too much. She is a really good student who doesnt like kids who dont do anything in class besides talk and misbehave. So Cal has two different lives, one being one of the most popular kids in school and the other his friend Marti who doesnt fit in too much. I like this book because this could all happen to an ordinary kid.

Cal Cameron by Day, Spider-Man by Night

Cal Cameron by Day, Spider-Man by Night, is by the author, A.E. Cannon. It is about a by named Cal who is a high school starting quarterback. Cal is in 11th grade. One day, he meets a girl named Marti who he becomes really close with. They run together, talk a lot, and other things that friends do. One day, Marti starts getting hate notes put on her locker and Cal takes them off so Marti doesn't see them. She finds out about them one day and she gets really mad. But to figure out the rest you will have to read it. I would recommend this book to a reader. It was a book about football and drama. Cal played football, and cross country running happened throughout most of the book too. The drama part was where Cal and Marti got in fights and faced their situation in the real world.