A teen at boarding school grapples with life, love, and rugby in this unforgettable novel that is тАЬalternately hilarious and painful, awkward and enlighteningтАЭ (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old junior at a boarding school for rich kids. HeтАЩs living in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers, and rooming with the biggest bully on the rugby team. And heтАЩs madly in love with his best friend Annie, who thinks of him as a little boy.
Ryan Dean manages to survive lifeтАЩs complications with the help of his sense of humor, rugby buddies, and his penchant for doodling comics. But when the unthinkable happens, he has to figure out how to hold on to whatтАЩs important, even when it feels like everything has fallen apart.
Filled with hand-drawn infographics and illustrations and told in a pitch-perfect voice, this realistic depiction of a teenтАЩs experience strikes an exceptional balance of hilarious and heartbreaking.