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• Kyle Chase: 15-year-old 10th grade "hoodie" (slacker, freak, burnout) who hates school. Best grade is a C minus in math. Put his fist through a bus window. Accumulated 18 days of detention by the end of October.
• Zack McDade: The new kid in school with a history of causing trouble and getting kicked out of other schools. Wears sports coats like a father would wear. As Kyle says, "A dork by anybody's standards."
• Kyle Chase: Angry and frustrated
• Ashley: Add a description of this character.
• Ryan
• Max
• Derrick
• Ms. Casey
• Kristi
• Nicole
• Cici: Friend of Ashley who also applyed for the job
• Paige Chase: Kyle's little sister

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• “"It's Zack, right?" Ms. Casey says, looking at him then at the paper in her hand, so it's obvious that she knows that's his name. He looks up from his book, his laugh dying to an open-mouth smile. "No, it's Zack 'McDade'. Right's just my nature."”

  Ms. Casey & Zack McDade

• “You used to love to read and always had a book in your hand. Then they assigned you the TRULY INSPIRING book and you found out how much reading could suck. So you read the back cover and you went online and then you wrote the book report. It was total BS and you knew it and you were actually nervous all weekend knowing that on Monday the teacher would "want to see you after class" or call your parents and let them know that you "were slipping a bit." And on Monday you got the book report back and there was a big old A plus on the cover.”

  Kyle Chase

• “The feeling passes, and what two hours ago was the most criminal thing you had ever done seems suddenly insignificant. Another line crossed. And you didn't even notice.”

  Kyle Chase

• “The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you're smarter than they are.”

  Kyle Chase

• “Better to get the piss beat out of you than call for help. It'd only take a few weeks to recover from a beating. Yelling for help would scar you for life.”

  Kyle Chase

• “A simple conversation, nobody yelling, just talking. If an adult talked to you like that, you wouldn't know what to say. But that's all right, adults don't talk to you. They talk at you.”

  Kyle Chase

• “"I wanna be like Kyle when I grow up." There's a pause - and you're thinking, does she mean the clothes or something else, something she sees in you that no one else sees, that you don't see, something she likes, something no one else has, something that means the world to her? Then your mom says, "No, Paige, you do not want to be like Kyle. One in the family is enough."”

• “I never told you what to do, I never tell anyone what to do. I make suggestions, I provide opportunities, and I make them VERY tempting, but when it comes down to it, everyone makes their own bad decisions. Now is it my fault that what they choose to do is exactly what I want them to do?”

• “It's always been true. Your whole life is a chain of choices -- your choices ... You could have chosen to stay tight with the friends you had instead of hanging around with losers, but that was another choice you made. And as far as grades, nobody forced you to become the kind of student who has few choices left.”

  Kyle Chase

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• Then they assigned you the truly inspiring book and you found out how much reading could suck.

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• There’s always a but. It’s a magical word. You can say anything you want, go on for as long as you want, and then all you have to do is add the magic word and instantly everything you said is erased, turned meaningless, just like that.

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• real discussion to get to the next thing that’s going to be on the test—the standardized test. Then when you take that standardized test they stand there in front of the class and actually tell you, “These tests are to help rate the school and won’t affect your grade.” And then they’re shocked by the results. And they say that the students are stupid?

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• Midlands High

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Charles Benoit (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award (Finalist, 2012: Young Adult)

Notes for Parents edit see section history

A gritty, realistic portray of high school life. Quick and easy to read. Highly recommended for teen boys, especially reluctant readers.

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Children's Books › People & Places › Social Issues › Violence › Fiction
• Books › Children's Books › People & Places › Boys & Men › Fiction
• Books › Teens › Social Issues › Being a Teen
• Books › Teens › Social Issues › Violence
• Books › Children's Books › Literature

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