All in Pieces

Zusatztext "Brave! honest! and complex characters . . . will inspire readers to see the beauty in broken things and give them the courage to pick up the pieces and put them together again." Informationen zum Autor Suzanne Young is the New York Times bestselling author of The Program series. Originally from Utica, New York, Suzanne moved to Arizona to pursue her dream of not freezing to death. She is a novelist and an English teacher, but not always in that order. Suzanne is also the author of Girls with Sharp Sticks, All in Pieces, Hotel for the Lost, and several other novels for teens. Visit her online at AuthorSuzanneYoung.com or follow her on Instagram at @AuthorSuzanneYoung. Klappentext "A girl struggles to take care of her younger brother with special needs while confronting her own anger issues"--All in Pieces CHAPTER ONE My life is none of their business. I don’t want to be up here, don’t want to explain my reasons, but I can’t afford to miss another assignment. I smooth my crumpled piece of notebook paper on the top of the podium. There’s a cough in the back of the quiet classroom, and even my teacher looks bored as he sits in the faux leather chair he brought over from his last school—a school that could afford fake leather chairs, apparently. Mr. Jimenez is definitely slumming with us. “My brother has an intellectual disability,” I read, pausing once the words are out. I feel judged, exposed, and I look up at the class, anticipating a reaction. “He’s not stupid,” I add defensively. “He just learns differently.” One guy curls his lip like he has no idea why I’m talking about this. A girl in the back pops her gum. The gravity of my confession is lost on them and it pisses me off. Pricks of anger crawl up my arms; anger at whom, I’m not sure. All of them, I guess. I grow flustered and lose my place on my page, the already smudged ink going blurry. I look up accusingly. “And if any of you even think of making a joke about him, I swear I’ll—” “What are you gonna do, Savvy?” Gris calls from the front row. He’s leaned back in his seat with his long legs stretched under the desk, his immaculate Timberlands begging to be stomped on. “You gonna stab me like you did your boyfriend?” I put my elbows on the top of the podium and lean forward, narrowing my eyes. “Give me your pencil, and we’ll find out,” I say. Gris smiles, and the scar on his cheek is shiny under the fluorescent lights of the room. I sneer and rest back on my heels. Aaron Griswold is an alcoholic loser, and I’ll tell him so the minute I’m finished. Just because we’re both stuck in Brooks Academy doesn’t mean we’re friends. He isn’t shit to me. But still, when he blows me a kiss a moment later, I nearly laugh. “Enough,” Mr. Jimenez calls from behind his desk. “Knock it off or I’ll see you both after class. Savannah,” he says to me, pushing his wire-rimmed glasses up on his nose. “Can you please continue?” I’m not sure I want to—this is such an incredible waste of time. But I need this class to graduate, so I swipe a tangle of red hair behind my ear and begin again. “Because of my brother’s condition”—I lower my voice—“I picked a special-education teacher for my career project. The pay is terrible but the hours aren’t bad. I think I’d be good at it. And I wouldn’t be one of those condescending ones either. I’d be cool. I’d help the kids feel cool.” I look out at the room of blank faces and sigh. “So, yeah. The end.” There’s a halfhearted attempt at applause before Mr. Jimenez comes to stand next to me, barely two inches taller. He smells like copy machine ink and cough drops, and he’s generally tolerant of our disinterest in learning. “Thank you, Savannah,” he mumbles, picking up the class...

Product details

• Authors: Suzanne Young
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 14 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9781481418836
• ISBN: 978-1-4814-1883-6
• No. of pages: 259
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Subject: Children's and young people's books