copyright date: May 2013 primarily marketed for: Young Adults (high school) Have you ever read Looking for Alaska by John Green? I never thought I would ever read another book that I could recommend as being just as good as Looking for Alaska . Until I read Winger by Andrew Smith . I laughed audibly at fictional characters while reading this book. My heart ached for fictional characters while reading this book. I had tears streaming down my face over fictional characters while reading this book. It is a good book. Great book. Incredible book. It is about a brilliant fourteen-year-old kid at a boarding school with sixteen-year-olds. After getting into some cell-phone trouble, this self-proclaimed runt is thrust into living in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troubled students. The kind of troubled students who would love to squash a fourteen-year-old boy. ...
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