This is one of the last of my boogeyman books from high school — those books you were supposed to read and didn’t. I didn’t read this one because I didn’t like my English teacher and thought the opening of this book was boring. And it kind of is. Like a lot of books about “school” there’s so much reflecting back on experience, that what makes them interesting is the remove you have from school to look back. YA novels work so well because we […]