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Gr 7-Up Jason is a smart 15-year-old, an agnostic-leaning-toward-atheism, who resists following in the footsteps of his devoutly Catholic father. Getting clocked under the water tower by the nasty and unpredictable Henry leads Jason and his friend Shin to combine their talents to posit a new religion. "Chutengodianism" sanctifies water, the source of all life, as manifested by the Ten-Legged God, aka that same million-gallon water tower. Creating the creed on the fly, Jason soon gathers a handful of acolytes, including his former nemesis. Their midnight p...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

At sixteen, Jay Bock is fed up with his parents' Roman Catholicism. When he happens to view the local water tower from a new perspective (having just been knocked out beneath it), he decides that it will make as good a god as any—after all, "the water connected all of us. It kept us alive." His nerdy friend Shin writes the holy text for Jay's cult of the "Ten-le...Log In or Sign Up to Read More