He deserved it. It was an excellent book.
I haven't read it, but we bought it for my 12 YO son. He loved it! He's now reading it for a second time, he said it fills the time he spends on the bus every day.
We live in a very conservative area, so much so that middle schoolers wear t-shirts from their church's religious ed programs at school.
Doubly impressive in that if I went to ten libraries today, I doubt I could find it in more than two.
And in those two it would be wedged into a bottom shelf in the Home Remodeling section of the adult shelves.