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Bullet Point

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Wyatt never really thought much about his dad—a hardened criminal, a lifer in a prison somewhere on the other side of the state. But then the economy had to go and tank, and the community had to go and cut the baseball program from Wyatt's high school. And then the coach had to go and show Wyatt a photograph of his dad at sixteen, looking very much like Wyatt himself. Through a series of unfortunate—or perhaps they were fortunate—events, Wyatt meets a crazy-hot girl named Greer with a criminal dad of her own. A criminal dad who is, in fact, in jail with Wyatt's own criminal dad. Greer arranges a meeting, and Wyatt's dad is nothing like the guy he's imagined—he's suave, and smart, and funny, and cool, and—Wyatt's pretty sure—innocent. So Wyatt decides to help him out. A decision that may possibly be the worst he's ever made in his life.

This is another hold-your-breath thriller by the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award nominated Peter Abrahams.

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    • Booklist

      Starred review from May 1, 2010
      Grades 9-12 *Starred Review* Its common enough to call a book a page-turner, but heres one that shouldve been printed on a scrollthose pesky page turns take far too much time. With an engulfing plot, multifaceted characters, and a plausibility rare to the genre, Abrahams latest beats you senseless and leaves you for dead. Great, huh? When a budget crunch squeezes out his schools baseball program, 16-year-old Wyatt moves across the state to take advantage of another schools team. Its there that he meets Greera few years older, beautiful, and equipped with wildly fluctuating mood swings. The frequent arguments between the two are the books heart, skipping fluently and believably between impatience, attraction, desperation, and hope. Like almost all characters in the book, Greers good/bad status is perpetually in doubt, especially when her incarcerated dad helps arrange a meeting between Wyatt and his biological father, who also resides in the local prison. When Wyatt begins to suspect his fathers innocence, he gets curiousand in trouble. Edgier and sexier than most YA novels dare, Abrahams thriller wrenches guts with a Richard Pricelike facility. Readers will be as irretrievably drawn in as Wyatt.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2010, American Library Association.)

    • The Horn Book

      July 1, 2010
      Wyatt's biological father, Sonny, is serving a life sentence for a crime committed before Wyatt was born. After meeting Sonny through an attractive (if unstable) girl whose father is incarcerated in the same prison, Wyatt begins searching for the truth behind his father's alleged crime. Tight writing and a suspenseful climax make for an exciting read.

      (Copyright 2010 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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  • English

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  • ATOS Level:3.9
  • Interest Level:9-12(UG)
  • Text Difficulty:2-3

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