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Saint Iggy
By Going, K. L.
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-15205-795-4
- Publisher
- Harcourt
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2006
Gr 9-Up Iggy Corso, 16, doesn -t do drugs, even though he was born addicted to crack. He lives in a city housing project, in an apartment filled with furniture that his stoned and drunken father collects from the street. Iggy -s mother is an addict who has been AWOL for a month. The cool thing about the teen is that, despite his parents and his environment, he doesn -t feel sorry for himself. A freshman who has failed two grades and been suspended eight times, he takes things for what they are, u...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on November 1, 2006
The author returns to the gritty New York City setting of her first YA novel, the Printz Honor book Fat Kid Rules the World (rev. 7/03). Faced with probable expulsion from school, sixteen-year-old Iggy comes up with a "Change-Everyone's-Mind-About-Me plan." The odds are stacked against him, though: home is the projects, his parents are drug addicts, and Mo, his only friend (a dope-s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
