2.28.2014

finished reading...

From the publisher:
Gerald Faust started feeling angry even before his mother invited a reality TV crew into his five-year-old life. Twelve years later, he's still haunted by his rage-filled youth--which the entire world got to watch from every imaginable angle--and his anger issues have resulted in violent outbursts, zero friends, and clueless adults dumping him in the special education room at school. No one cares that Gerald has tried to learn to control himself; they're all just waiting for him to snap. And he's starting to feel dangerously close to doing just that...until he chooses to create possibilities for himself that he never knew he deserved.

As a lover of reality TV, I found this to be an interesting premise. There is an authentic teen voice and I especially enjoyed the shifting narration from Gerald today and episode filming twelve years previously. Some of the secondary characters were a bit too pat, but I say that because I wanted more of everyone!

This is one I'll recommend to all my students.

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