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Struck By Lightning Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal  follows the story of outcast high school senior Carson Phillips who blackmails the most popular students in his school into contributing to his literary journal to bolster his college application; his goal in life is to get into Northwestern and eventually become the editor of  The New Yorker . At once laugh-out-loud funny, deliciously dark, and remarkably smart, Struck By Lightning unearths the dirt that lies just below the surface of high school. **** Struck by Lightning : The Carson Philip Journal Author : Chris Colfer Published : 20 November 2012 Publisher : Little Brown Books for Young Readers Pages : 272  Meet Carson Phillips, a high school senior that ran a writing club (i forgot the exact club name). He is bitter, witty, cynical, goal oriented and brilliant. His superiority is above his peers or everyone in the little town name Clover.  But his uniq...

Rumble Fish Rusty-James is the number one tough guy among the junior high kids who hang out and shoot pool at Benny's. He's proud of his reputation, but what he wants most of all is to be just like his older brother, the Motorcycle Boy. Whenever Rusty-James gets in over his head, the Motorcycle Boy has always been there to bail him out. Then one day Rusty-James' world comes apart, and the Motorcycle boy isn't around to pick up the pieces. What now? ***  Title : Rumble Fish Author : S.E Hinton Genre : YA Year of Published : 1989 Publisher : Laurel Leaf *** It's been a long time since the last time I read classic YA which written by S.E Hinton. I encountered this book on one of biggest bookstore in Seoul, and got discount 70% because the condition is not quite good. At first, the cover is so 80's, I mean I don't think teenagers in this age will pick this book because of the cover. But the author name is pretty big and bold, an...

One of Us Lying Hardcover Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.     Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule.     Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess.     Nate, the criminal , is already on probation for dealing.     Cooper, the athlete , is the all-star baseball pitcher.     And Simon, the outcast , is the creator of Bayview High’s notorious gossip app. Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention Simon's dead. And according to investigators, his death wasn’t an accident. On Monday, he died. But on Tuesday, he’d planned to post juicy reveals about all four of his high-profile classmates, which makes all four of them suspects in his murder. Or are they the perfect patsies for a killer who’s still on the loose? Everyone has secrets, right? Wh...

All the Bright Places paperback Theodore Finch is fascinated by death. Every day he thinks of ways he might kill himself, but every day he also searches for—and manages to find— something  to keep him here, and alive, and awake.   Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her small Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death.   When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school—six stories above the ground— it’s unclear who saves whom. Soon it’s only with Violet that Finch can be himself. And it’s only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink. . . . **** All the Bright Places Author : Jennifer Niven Publisher : knopf Pages : 378 Genre : Young Adult Well, terdapat dua pandangan yang sangat bertentangan saat saya mencoba membaca laman comment tentang buku ini di...