Strays

By: Ron Koertge

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Hardcover | 1 June 2007

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Hardcover
176 Pages

Age
14+

Grade
9+

Dimensions(cm)
20.32 x 13.97 x 1.91

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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 new 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?
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.

Industry Reviews

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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