Unbelievably Boring Bart is a Children's Novel by James Patterson and Duane Swierczynski.
Bartholemew Bean is perhaps the most uninteresting kid the world has ever known. He's the kind of kid the teacher skips over the name of at role call. The kind of kid every bully in the school targets. The kind of kid who puts the class to sleep when giving their presentation. So, yeah, not the most exciting kid in the world. Except for one detail...
He's programming an app game.
Yeah, that's right, the most uninteresting person on Earth knows how to make a game. It's an Augmented Reality Game called "HECKLR", where the Earth is being invaded by a race of electricity-eating aliens called Lerkians, and you have to scare them off by hurling insults at them. He decided to develop this game in secret to deal with his dad moving them from his home in Philadelphia, to sunny, OH SO sunny Rancho Verdugo, California.
Anyway, Bart decides to share his new game with his only friend in Rancho Verdugo, CyberGirl03, one night, and the next day, he discovers everyone in town is playing it. HECKLR quickly becomes the most popular game around, and everyone, even Bart's bullies, are playing it. Everyone that is, except Bart's dad, who's more about athletics and physical activity than those fancy shmancy devices all the kids have their eyes glued to these days. Bart can't really play it either, though that's because he needs to keep on programming it to get rid of any/all bugs that have been popping up in the game's code since so many people got into it.
The book was released on September 3rd, 2018.
Unbelievable Boring Bart contains examples of:
- Alliterative Name: The Protagonist's name is Bartholemew Bean.
- There's also his father, Bill Bean.
- The Bully: Bart has to deal with three in school.
- Giselle "The Golem", who makes sure to bump into Bart every chance she gets.
- Nick "The Mimic", who likes to sit behind Bart in all his classes and poke him.
- Tigran "The Tyrant", who "borrows" things from Bart and never returns them.
- Bully Turned Buddy: Nick "The Mimic" starts sucking up to Bart at the end of the book after Bart beats the Lerkians at ChickenHead LavaLamp's live stream event at the school.
- Character Narrator: Bart is both The Protagonist, and the narrator of the book.
- Homeschooled Kids: CyberGirl03 does cyberschool from home because she's afraid of crowds.
- Missing Mom: Bart's mom never appears in the story. Bart mentions she left his dad before the story started.
- Portmanteau: The Bean family's dog, Pickleback, is named because Bill wanted to name him quarterback, and Bart wanted to name him Pickle. They both settled on this.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Bill Bean looks like his son, Bart, with a five o'clock shadow.
