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9780152057954 Hardcover
0152057951
$17.00
272pages
Available
Trim Size:
5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Copyright Year:
2006
Territory:
US, C, I, O
Ages: 14 years and up |
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Synopsis |
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I am not so bad a person once you get to know me.
When Iggy Corso gets kicked out of high school, there's no one for him to tell. His mother has gone off, his father is stoned on the couch, and the phone's been disconnected, so even the social worker can't get through. Leaving his public housing behind, Iggy ventures into the world to make something of his life. It's not easy when you're sixteen, have no skills, and your only friend is mixed up with the dealer who got your mom hooked. But Iggy is . . . Iggy, and he has the kind of wisdom that lets him see what no one else can.
K. L. Going's third novel is a haunting achievement about a young man's tragic search for meaning in a world that to him makes no sense.
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* "The author...avoids heavy symbolism and message by grounding her story in realistic, grimly vivid, urban details, and she creates a memorable character in Iggy...Teens will connect with Iggy's powerful sense that although he notices everything, he is not truly seen and accepted himself." --Booklist (September 15, 2006 - starred review)
Booklist,9/15/2006
* "Iggy Corso is unforgettable." --School Library Journal (September 2006) (starred review)
School Library Journal,9/1/2006
"In a carefully crafted novel that makes metaphors out of everything from dead-end streets to a doorman's casual query...K.L. Going tracks her hero on his quest to 'do good' in both senses of the phrase... Going folds it all into her larger story of urban redemption without sentimentalizing any of it--or goodness either--and Iggy's wry humor keeps the lurking didacticism in check." --Washington Post Book World (October 1, 2006)
Washington Post Book World,10/1/2006
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Biography |
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K. L. GOING is the author of Fat Kid Rules the World, a Printz Honor Book, and The Liberation of Gabriel King. She lives and writes full-time in Glen Spey, New York.
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Awards |
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| ALA Best Book for Young Adults |
| Junior Library Guild Premier Selection Junior Library Guild Premier Selection |
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General Subjects |
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Juvenile Fiction- Social Situations/Adolescence
Juvenile Fiction- Social Situations/Homelessness & Poverty
Juvenile Fiction- Family/Parents
Juvenile Fiction- Social Situations/Drugs, Alcohol, Substa
Juvenile Fiction- Lifestyles/City Life
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Rights Details |
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| Rights Sold: |
A Junior Library Guild Selection; Listening Library Audio Edition
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| Rights Holders: |
B/T/A/P/M: Curtis Brown |
Rights Information |
Harcourt Children's Books
A Division ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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