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Winger

Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding school, fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West grapples with living in the dorm for troublemakers, falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and playing wing on the Varsity rugby team with some of his frightening new dorm-mates.

Book  - 2013
FIC Smith
1 copy / 0 on hold

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Victoria Available
  • ISBN: 1442444924
  • ISBN: 9781442444928
  • Physical Description print
    438 pages : illustrations
  • Edition 1st ed.
  • Publisher New York ; Toronto : Simon & Schuster Children's Pub., [2013]

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General Note:
Nominated for the Teens' Top Ten Award, 2014
"Simon & Schuster BFYR."
Target Audience Note:
"Ages 12 up"--P. [2] of cover.
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
LSC 19.99

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Syndetic Solutions - Summary for ISBN Number 1442444924
Winger
Winger
by Smith, Andrew; Bosma, Sam (Illustrator)
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Winger


A teen at boarding school grapples with life, love, and rugby in a heartbreakingly funny novel. Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old junior at a boarding school for rich kids. He's living in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers, and rooming with the biggest bully on the rugby team. And he's madly in love with his best friend Annie, who thinks of him as a little boy. With the help of his sense of humor, rugby buddies, and his penchant for doodling comics, Ryan Dean manages to survive life's complications and even find some happiness along the way. But when the unthinkable happens, he has to figure out how to hold on to what's 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 teen's experience strikes an exceptional balance of hilarious and heartbreaking.