Out of OrderHarper Collins, 2009. 8. 25. - 256페이지 Colt's perfect life crumbles when his girlfriend breaks up with him and looming academic ineligibility threatens his baseball career. For a guy who gets by on his good looks and talent with a bat, Colt knows that he could be facing his toughest challenge ever. Just as she did in her acclaimed novel Damage, author A. M. Jenkins strikes to the heart of an outwardly confident teenager to expose surprising sensitivity, uncertainty, and humor within. o Jenkins successfully tackles such common young adult themes as peer pressure and self esteem by addressing them through an inquisitive and likeable character to whom teens will easily relate. o Out Of Order will resonate with girls and boys, reluctant and avid readers. Ages 12 + |
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... no effort, and it made me not ever want to pick up my goddamn pen again. And if the sun was just right, coming in the windows, I could see tiny golden soft hairs on her forearm. And sometimes she'd turn her head and stare off to the 5.
A. M. Jenkins. sometimes she'd turn her head and stare off to the side, out the window, and I could almost see all those ideas rolling around in there, inside that head. I'm thinking about this, and I'm even almost forgetting I'm in ...
... heads my way. She's wearing running shoes and boys' jeans, and when she unzips her sweat jacket, I see she's got on a Hawaiian shirt, only instead of flowers it's got cats doing the hula all over it. I hate weird people. And poor people ...
... heads open on PBS. Her lab partner, Michael McMillan, is grinning. He really thinks I'm going to do it. Am I? I don't know. It'd go down in history. It'd be 9 remembered years from now, when the proms and football games.
... head down and sleep in here. Nobody bothers me, except every once in a while Miss A. has some homework she wants me to grade. She won't let me grade tests, although I'm good at that—I like checking off other people's mistakes. Today, as ...