Stick
Feiwel & Friends
Available: 10/11/11
5.92 x 8.44 · 304 pages
Ages 14-18 years
9780312613419
CDN $19.99
· cl
With dust jacket
Buy the Book
+ Amazon.ca
+ Chapters.Indigo.ca
+ Independent Retailers
Fourteen-year-old Stark McClellan (nicknamed Stick because he's tall and thin) is bullied for being deformed" - he was born with only one ear. His older brother Bosten is always there to defend Stick. But the boys can't defend one another from their abusive parents.
When Stick realizes Bosten is gay, he knows that to survive his father's anger, Bosten must leave home. Stick has to find his brother, or he will never feel whole again. In his search, he will encounter good people, bad people, and people who are simply indifferent to kids from the wrong side of the tracks. But he never loses hope of finding love - and his brother.
"
Andrew Smith is the author of Ghost Medicine and The Marbury Lens, both of which were named American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults. He is also the author of In the Path of Falling Objects . Smith started writing for newspapers and radio. He then traveled around the world and from job to job, working in metal mills, as a longshoreman, in bars and liquor stores, in security and as a musician. Now, in addition to writing, he teaches high school advanced placement classes and coaches rugby. He lives in Southern California with his family, in a rural location in the mountains.
