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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... voice. She doesn't know who I am—she's new and she doesn't know girls with bad dye jobs and stupid clothes can't talk back to people like me. I'll teach her. “I gotta ask you something,” I add. “Be honest, now. You are a girl, aren't ...
... voice was like an icy street, where you'd better drive slow if you don't want to end up in a ditch. “You've never said that before.” “So?” I asked. As soon as it came out, I knew it was wrong. So? Definitely not in the spirit of the ...
... voice shakes when you know one more single wrong word could blow your whole world away. I'd never driven so carefully in my life. I'd just laid myself out at her feet. She knew everything. Almost. And all the way to her house I was ...
... voice. Me, I think it's pitiful. A grown man devoting his whole life to trying to get teenagers to care about literature. It's hard to watch sometimes, how bad Mr. Hammond wants everybody to love this stuff, this English stuff ...
... voice booms, because he's the one looming above me—Pay attention, Colt! I put my pencil down and Mr. Hammond's hand leaves, but he stays there, inches from my desk, reading from the piece of paper in his hand. “'. . . and shed around ...