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Beastlyby Alex FlinnISBN 006087418X (0-06-087418-X)
Softcover, Harperteen
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beastly'Book summary:Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: HarperTeen; Reprint edition (2008) Language: English [via]
Breaking Pointby Alex FlinnISBN 0064473716 (0-06-447371-6)
Softcover, Avon Tempest
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breaking Point'Book summary:Tripped in class, mooned in the hall, cola poured through the slats in his locker, spitballs stuck in his hair--how much more can Paul Richmond take at his super-snobby private school, expensive Gate-Bicknell Christian? Paul is there free because his mom works in the guidance office, but that fact makes him an instant outcast, his only friend a funny-looking, independent girl named Binky. Even worse off is David Blanco, whose mom is a cafeteria lady and whose father is the janitor. The jocks hound him unmercifully, even killing his dog. When Paul goes to David's house to offer sympathy, David rejects him angrily, saying "You'll be next." Binky, too, tries to explain the cruelty of the rich kids who surround them, but Paul yearns to be accepted anyway. So when cool, elegant, and charismatic Charlie Good asks for his help in computer lab, Paul is eager to comply, and later, when Charlie and his henchmen, Meat and St. John, come for him in the night for a game of mailbox baseball, Paul willingly does the bashing. Gradually he is accepted at school as part of Charlie's group, but for a price: having to hack into the school computers to change Charlie's D in biology. When David Blanco kills himself and the school simply ignores it, Paul is momentarily taken aback, especially when he learns that David had been Charlie's ally last year. But then Charlie reveals his real plan, for which everything else has been preliminary, and Paul has his last chance to say no.
Alex Flinn, whose Breathing Underwater earned high praise, does tribute to the great Robert Cormier in this dark and brilliant novel about the high price of acquiescence to evil. (Ages 14 and older) --Patty Campbell [via]
Breathing Underwaterby Alex FlinnISBN 0064472574 (0-06-447257-4)
Softcover, Avon Tempest
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Breathing Underwaterby Alex FlinnISBN 0060291990 (0-06-029199-0)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breathing Underwater'Book summary:It was only a slap. Well, maybe more than one. And maybe Nick used his fist at the end when the anger got out of control. But his girlfriend Caitlin deserved it--hadn't she defied him by singing in the school talent show when he had forbidden her to display herself like that? Even though he'd told her that everybody would laugh at her because she couldn't sing and was a fat slob? Both were lies. Because Caitlin was so beautiful, the only person who understood him. Out of his desperate need for her came all the mean words and the hitting. But now Caitlin's family has procured a restraining order to keep Nick away, and the judge has sentenced him to Mario Ortega's Family Violence class, to sit around every week with six other angry guys who hit their girlfriends. And to write a journal explaining how he got into this mess.
Other teen novels--most strikingly Dreamland by Sarah Dessen--have shown dating violence from the point of view of a young girl trapped in an abusive relationship, but in Breathing Underwater, first-time novelist Alex Flinn tackles the difficult task of making us understand, if not sympathize with, the motivation of a violent young man. The story, like Rob Thomas's stylistically similar Rats Saw God, proceeds in two different time frames: the journal in which Nick relives the course of his tender but stormy love affair with Caitlin and the time after the restraining order, in which a desperate and friendless Nick struggles to understand and overcome his anger. This extraordinarily moving novel is highly relevant reading for all young men in our violence-prone society. (Ages 13 and older) --Patty Campbell [via]
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Divaby Alex FlinnISBN 0060568461 (0-06-056846-1)
Softcover, Harperteen
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diva'Book summary:For most people, the word "diva" means brilliant and over-the-top. Caitlin, however, seems to be trapped in a not-so-glamorous life with serious ex-boyfriend issues and a permanent yo-yo diet. But when she auditions and gets into the performing arts high school, everything changes. Caitlin can sing like an angel, but it will take more than her voice to help her overcome her past and shape her future. In this companion novel to alex flinn's acclaimed breathing underwater, caitlin puts her past as "the abused girlfriend" behind her and moves onward and upward to diva-dom. Ages:12 [via]
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Fade To Blackby Alex FlinnISBN 0060568429 (0-06-056842-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fade To Black'Book summary:What really happened
on Monday, October 27, at 6:00 a.m.?The facts: Alex Crusan, an HIV-positive student, was attacked by an assailant who shattered the windows of his car with a baseball bat. Alex is in the hospital with multiple injuries.
The suspect: Clinton Cole was seen riding his bike in the vicinity that morning. And sure, he has problems with Alex. He might even have harassed him at school. But he'd never do something like this. Would he?
The witness: Daria Bickell never lies. So if she told the police she saw Clinton do it, she must have. But did she really?
The victim: After the windshield shattered, Alex ducked under the steering wheel. But he knows what he saw. Now he must decide what he wants to tell.
Three people, three perspectives -- one truth. Who will tell it?
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Nothing to Loseby Alex FlinnISBN 0060517522 (0-06-051752-2)
Softcover, Avon Tempest
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