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Gr 8 Up—As the book opens, Kyle Chase wonders how he got himself into the dire situation he's in. Reflecting on the start of the school year, he recalls how his grades fell and he enrolled at Midlands High, while his friends headed to Odyssey. He met the hoodie crew and adopted their uniform of jeans, T-shirt, and black-hooded sweatshirts. He suppressed the guilt he felt after the group broke into the school. He tried to do the right thing and return a stolen wallet, but got suspended for three days for fighting. Doing catch-up work in the library, Kyl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Although written as prose, this portrait of a high school "hoodie" seems that unlikely thing, a verse novel for boys, capturing the emotions, both torpid and turbulent, of adolescence in brief, charged paragraphs. Tenth-grader Kyle, addressed as "you" throughout the book, is one of those slouching, go-along kids, not a delinquent but not really much of anything else, either. He's always on the verge of flunking out, he won't get a part-time job, he won't ask out the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Tenth-grader Kyle, addressed as "you" throughout, is always on the verge of flunking out. School becomes a bit more interes...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

You is an incisive psychological portrait of a contemporary teenager as well as a spot-on account of the joys, fears, and general confusion of adolescence. Fast-paced and strikin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More