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Strays

By Ron Koertge

By Ron Koertge

By Ron Koertge

By Ron Koertge

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Sep 28, 2010 | ISBN 9780763643775 | Young Adult

Hardcover $16.99

May 08, 2007 | ISBN 9780763627058 | Young Adult

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    About Strays

    Could life as a foster kid lead to unexpected benefits? A teenager’s link to animals gives way to human connection in a smart, incisive novel.

    Sixteen-year-old Ted O’Connor’s parents just died in a fiery car crash, and now he’s stuck with a set of semi-psycho foster parents, two foster brothers — Astin, the cocky gearhead, and C.W., the sometimes gangsta — and an inner-city high school full of delinquents. He’s having pretty much the worst year of his miserable life. Or so he thinks. Is it possible that becoming an orphan is not the worst thing that could have happened to him? Drawing on his trademark wit and sharp insight, master novelist Ron Koertge takes the lead with this smart, surprising story about a boy learning to run with a new pack.

    About Strays

    “By turns insightful, devastatingly funny, and suffused with loneliness . . . this thoughtful novel about the lost and abandoned is a hopeful one, in which some strays find a place to belong.” — Booklist

    Sixteen-year-old Ted O’Connor’s parents just died in a fiery car crash, and now he’s stuck with a set of semi-psycho foster parents, two foster brothers — Astin, the cocky gearhead, and C.W., the sometimes gangsta — and an inner-city high school full of delinquents. He’s having pretty much the worst year of his miserable life. Or so he thinks. Is it possible that becoming an orphan is not the worst thing that could have happened to him?

    Master novelist Ron Koertge brings his best work yet, a smart, surprising story full of trademark wit and sharp insight about a boy learning to run with a new pack.

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    Product Details

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues

    Paperback | $7.99
    Published by Candlewick
    Sep 28, 2010 | 176 Pages | 5-1/4 x 7-3/4 | Young Adult | ISBN 9780763643775

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues

    Hardcover | $16.99
    Published by Candlewick
    May 08, 2007 | 176 Pages | 5-1/4 x 7-3/4 | Young Adult | ISBN 9780763627058

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    Praise

    Using deft touches of humor and an element of the supernatural, Koertge (Boy Girl Boy) delivers a stirring account of a boy’s rise above difficult circumstances.
    —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

    Fresh and imaginative.
    —Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review)

    This tight, smoothly plotted, perfectly pitched novel is among the author’s best work.
    —School Library Journal (starred review)

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