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Gr 9-Up Fifteen-year-old David Case, scared out of his acceptance of dailiness by his baby brother -s near calamity at an open window, changes his name to Justin and allows several new people into his life. He is befriended by a somewhat older -and definitely more worldly -girl when he enters a thrift shop to remake his sartorial presentation. Angela is easy to fall in love with, but frustrating for Justin and suspicious for readers. Peter Prince, on the other hand, a new friend who urges Justin to discover how very good he is as a distance runner, lives up to his surna...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Though Rosoff's latest novel does not exude the raw energy of her much-lauded debut How I Live Now (rev. 9/04), it does offer an intelligent, uniquely embellished view of teen angst gone too far. Fifteen-year-old David Case begins to become unglued after saving his toddler brother from falling out of a window. Panic overtakes him as he contemplates the world's innumerable dangers: "There were comets. Killer bees. Foreign armies. Floods. Serial killers." Hoping to evade Fate, who is personified and interjects comments into...Log In or Sign Up to Read More