100 sideways miles
Record details
- ISBN: 9781442444959 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 1442444959 (hbk.)
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Physical Description:
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277 pages ; 22 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2014.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Erlanger Branch | YA SMITH A (Text) | 33126019538622 | New YA Fiction | Available | - |
- School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 2014 July
Gr 9 UpâFinn Easton has lived his life in the shadow of a book. As a child, Finn was severely injured and his mother killed in a freak accident: a dead horse landed on them when it fell off a truck that was traveling over a bridge. After the accident, his father took many of Finn's unique characteristics (his name, heterochromatic eyes, propensity to measure time in miles traveled by the Earth in orbit, struggle with epilepsy, and a particular scar along his back) and made them into a character in a Robert Heinlein-esque novel, The Lazarus Door. The novel has attained cult status around the world and made Finn's life a nightmare. The only person who treats him as though he is not the character in the book is his best friend, Cade Hernandez, the tobacco-chewing, sex-obsessed, teacher-baiting hero to their classmates, beloved for his pitching skills and his ability to get most peopleâespecially girlsâto do whatever he wants. Late in their junior year, Julia Bishop moves in and Finn falls in love. She is creative and funny. When she announces that she is moving back home to Chicago shortly after Finn's birthday, he is heartbroken, but decides to continue with his planned road trip with Cade to Dunston University in Oklahoma, a school they plan to attend unless Cade is drafted by the major leagues or is given an athletic scholarship to another university. The trip is the first time Finn has been out of California or away from home, and Cade helps him cut the cord by throwing away his cell while on the road in Arizona. While driving in a deluge in Oklahoma, they witness an accident and risk their own lives rescuing a little boy, a dog, and a grandfather from a raging river. This will appeal to teens who like novels with a bit of an absurdist edge, such as Libba Bray's Going Bovine (Delacorte, 2009).âSuanne B. Roush, formerly at Osceola High School, Seminole, FL
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