Saturday, June 2, 2012

29. Blank Confession - Pete Hautman

2010
170 pgs.
Young Adult
Rating: 4/5

1st sentence:  Five Lousy Minutes/” Detective George Rawls hung up the phone, brought his foot down from his cluttered desktop, looked at his watch and sighed.”

The summary blurb says it all, “A new and enigmatic student named Shayne Blank appears at high school one day, befriends the smallest boy in the school (who takes pride in wearing a suit to school every day and is a smart-mouth), and takes on a notorious drug dealer before turnig himself in to the police for killing someone.”

Six serious character studies could be the next step after reading this fast-paced, mesmerizing story – Shayne, Mikey, his sister Marie, Detective Rawls, drug dealer Jon, and Mikey and Maries’s dad….plus, come to think of it, Trey: the huge, half-clueless boy who’s not sure where he belongs.

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