Foreseeing a hopeless future in barrooms and parking lots, cagey 13-year-old Luli McMullen bolts headlong from the heartland, aiming at Las Vegas where she expects to find herself a sugar daddy. Almost immediately, crooked-bodied Eddie Kreezer, a roving obsessive with a violent streak, and a fadi...
I thought I was prepared.I'd seen many friends pick this up and then lay it down after 15 pages or so, saying this just really wasn't for them. But I've been the odd one out before, so maybe this could end up working for me! So I finally started my own copy of Anatomy of a Misfit and... well. Let...
No, no. Instead, you can just have a six-course meal at a fancy restaurant and invite the whole family there. Which is what Milo’s mom did. Of course. Don’t worry, though, we get the whole back room to ourselves. It’s a private room with dark-wood floors, burgundy damask wallpaper, and sconces on...
That late, late summer, dog days, that sticky August heat—even the trees are sweating. The hackberry trees growing out of the limestone, the other side of the quarry like a cliff. Underneath, the water a pine-green blue. An abandoned inner tube bobbing up and down near the sand. Yeah, so, it’s no...