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.
Teen rocker Ritchie Sudden is pretty sure his life has just jumped the shark. Except he hates being called a teen, his band doesn’t play rock, and “jumping the shark” is yet another dumb cliché. Part of Ritchie wants to drop everything and walk away. Especially the part that’s serving ninety days in a juvenile detention center.
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.
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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
- Jun 24, 2014
- Page Count
- 464 pages
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- ISBN-13
- 9780316203784
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