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Wise Young Fool

by Sean Beaudoin
August 6, 2013 | Hardcover
ISBN: 9780316203791
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Description

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. A battle of the bands looms. Dad split about five minutes before Mom's girlfriend moved in. There's the matter of trying to score with the dangerously hot Ravenna Woods while avoiding the dangerously huge Spence Proffer--not to mention just trying to forget what his sister, Beth, said the week before she died.

Acclaimed author Sean Beaudoin's latest offering is raw, razor-sharp, and genuinely hilarious.

Young Adult Fiction / Boys & Men Young Adult Fiction / Family / Parents Young Adult Fiction / Performing Arts / Music

About this Author

Sean Beaudoin is the author of Going Nowhere Faster, which was nominated as one of YALSA's "Best Books for Young Adults"; Fade to Blue, which was called "Infinite Jest for teens" by Booklist, You Killed Wesley Payne, which was a Booklist Editor's Choice; and The Infects, which was called a "wickedly unpredictable adventure" by Publishers Weekly. His short stories and articles have appeared in numerous publications. Sean's website is seanbeaudoin.com.

ISBN: 9780316203791
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2013-08-06

Reviews

* "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)

*"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)

"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

"[Beaudoin] plays language like Hendrix plays a guitar."--BCCB

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