Three funny, heartfelt coming of age novels for less than the price of two.
Apache Dreaming - When Josh Nordland moves to a new high school, he only wants to think about three things: girls, blues and football. But when he saves scrawny Billy Cotton from a teammate's beating in the school parking lot, Josh quickly finds himself a social outcast. With no one else to hang out with, Josh begins to bond with Billy, who has a strange dream: becoming an Apache warrior. Despite Josh's Apache heritage, he dismisses Billy's yearnings as impossible.
As the two teens develop a deeper friendship, they embark together on a strange, funny and exhilarating journey of self-discovery. But the consequences of reconnecting with their shared heritage in a modern world might be larger than either Josh or Billy could possibly imagine.
Hooligans - It's the summer of 1953, and the months before Christopher McClaren is set to go to Stanford are shaping up to be pretty boring. With his mother away in Europe and his brother fighting in Korea, Christopher passes his summer days working at his uncle's beverage distributor - until a group of classmates from the other side of town steal beer from his truck. After a confrontation lands the entire group, including Christopher, in jail, one question sits perched on everyone's lips.
Will the clean-cut Christopher risk losing his sterling future to have the best summer of his life?
Mad Dog Brewster - Freshman Malcolm Brewster just wants to be something more than invisible at his new high school. He gets his wish when, upon saving a girl from being harassed in the stairwell, he inadvertently injures the star of the basketball team with a fire axe. Word of the "vicious attack" spreads through the high-school like wild-fire - and, by the next day, the mild-mannered Malcolm is known by the student body as "Mad Dog" - feared and revered by all.
But Malcolm quickly finds notoriety isn't all that it's cracked up to be. And between the principal nosing into the incident and the player's father serving up a million-dollar lawsuit, Malcolm needs to find a way to fix the situation fast - or else the Mad Dog looks destined to be little more than an interesting footnote in school history.
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Apache Dreaming - When Josh Nordland moves to a new high school, he only wants to think about three things: girls, blues and football. But when he saves scrawny Billy Cotton from a teammate's beating in the school parking lot, Josh quickly finds himself a social outcast. With no one else to hang out with, Josh begins to bond with Billy, who has a strange dream: becoming an Apache warrior. Despite Josh's Apache heritage, he dismisses Billy's yearnings as impossible.
As the two teens develop a deeper friendship, they embark together on a strange, funny and exhilarating journey of self-discovery. But the consequences of reconnecting with their shared heritage in a modern world might be larger than either Josh or Billy could possibly imagine.
Hooligans - It's the summer of 1953, and the months before Christopher McClaren is set to go to Stanford are shaping up to be pretty boring. With his mother away in Europe and his brother fighting in Korea, Christopher passes his summer days working at his uncle's beverage distributor - until a group of classmates from the other side of town steal beer from his truck. After a confrontation lands the entire group, including Christopher, in jail, one question sits perched on everyone's lips.
Will the clean-cut Christopher risk losing his sterling future to have the best summer of his life?
Mad Dog Brewster - Freshman Malcolm Brewster just wants to be something more than invisible at his new high school. He gets his wish when, upon saving a girl from being harassed in the stairwell, he inadvertently injures the star of the basketball team with a fire axe. Word of the "vicious attack" spreads through the high-school like wild-fire - and, by the next day, the mild-mannered Malcolm is known by the student body as "Mad Dog" - feared and revered by all.
But Malcolm quickly finds notoriety isn't all that it's cracked up to be. And between the principal nosing into the incident and the player's father serving up a million-dollar lawsuit, Malcolm needs to find a way to fix the situation fast - or else the Mad Dog looks destined to be little more than an interesting footnote in school history.
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Used availability for Charles Alverson's The Coming of Age Box