His professor mom’s new tenure-track job transplants Norris mid–school year, and his biting wit and sarcasm are exposed through his cataloging of his new world in a field guide–style burn book. Norris Kaplan, the protagonist of Philippe’s debut novel, is a hypersweaty, uber-snarky black, Haitian, French-Canadian pushing to survive life in his new school. 12-14)Ī teenage, not-so-lonely loner endures the wilds of high school in Austin, Texas. The wish-fulfilling title and sun-washed, catalog-beautiful teens on the cover will be enticing for girls looking for a diversion. Besides the mostly off-stage issue of a parent’s severe illness there’s not much here to challenge most readers-driving, beer-drinking, divorce, a moment of surprise at the mothers smoking medicinal pot together. In the background the two mothers renew their friendship each year, and Lauren, Belly’s mother, provides support for her friend-if not, unfortunately, for the children-in Susannah’s losing battle with breast cancer. Belly’s dawning awareness of her sexuality and that of the boys is a strong theme, as is the sense of summer as a separate and reflective time and place: Readers get glimpses of kisses on the beach, her best friend’s flirtations during one summer’s visit, a first date. In this fierce, disturbing novel, Pete Hautman spins a poignant tale about inner demons, and how far one boy will go to control them.Han’s leisurely paced, somewhat somber narrative revisits several beach-house summers in flashback through the eyes of now 15-year-old Isabel, known to all as Belly.īelly measures her growing self by these summers and by her lifelong relationship with the older boys, her brother and her mother’s best friend’s two sons. As Doug retreats deeper and deeper into his own world, long-buried secrets come to light - and the more he tries to keep them invisible, the looser his grip on reality becomes. Despite their differences, Doug and Andy talk about everything - except what happened at the Tuttle place a few years back. Andy is nothing like Doug: He’s a popular football star who could date any girl in school. Doug’s only refuge is building elaborate model trains in his basement and hanging out with his best friend, Andy Morrow. Lots of people think Doug Hanson is a freak - he gets beat up after school and the girl of his dreams calls him a worm. Next to Andy Morrow, my best friend….I guess you could say that I’m not only disturbed, I’m obsessed.
You could say that my railroad, the Madham Line, is almost the most important thing in my life. You can read this before Invisible PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Invisible written by Pete Hautman which was published in November 28th 2006.
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