Wise Young Fool
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You want ninety? Fine, I’ll give you ninety. I’ll give them to you coming and going.
Telling the story of the year leading up to his arrest, Ritchie grabs readers by the throat before (politely) inviting them along for the (max-speed) ride. A battle of the bands looms. Dad split about five minutes before Mom’s girlfriend moved in. There’s the matter of trying to score with the dangerously hot Ravenna Woods while avoiding the dangerously huge Spence Proffer–not to mention just trying to forget what his sister, Beth, said the week before she died.
Acclaimed author Sean Beaudoin’s latest offering is raw, razor-sharp, and genuinely hilarious.
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* "Beaudoin is the Fred Astaire of comic writing, translating each sentence into a manic dance routine of half-invented jargon ("chewing the profunda-cud") on his way to blessedly non-cloying coming-of-age glory."Booklist (starred review)
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*"The author does a brilliant job getting into the head of a troubled teen and does not shy away from racy topics."School Library Journal (starred review)
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" Larger-than-life characters....Behind the music quest, sarcasm and pursuit of girls, however, lies a more complicated and often compelling story about family, grief and flawed coping mechanisms."Kirkus
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"[Beaudoin] plays language like Hendrix plays a guitar."BCCB
- On Sale
- Aug 6, 2013
- Page Count
- 224 pages
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- ISBN-13
- 9780316235105
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