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Title: Not deserving of an award...
Review: Anyone who works with today's youth will likely see that Shepard had a hard time connecting with the teen mind when he wrote this novel. The situations patchworked into the storyline to drive along the plot feel almost completely unbelievable. More so, the dialog used by the teens in this novel is so contrived and so incredibly awful. As you read, it feels like an adult desperately trying to write like a teenager but without have the background research of how one thinks.I can't help but think this book gets more credit than it deserves mainly for the fact that it tackles such an incredibly difficult subject matter.
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