Peak must learn to navigate the extreme and exotic terrain but negotiate a code of ethics among men.
To save him, his long-lost Everest-trekking dad appears with a plan for the duo to make a life in Katmandu-a smokescreen to make Peak become the youngest person in history to summit Mount Everest. 12-15)ĭare-devil mountain-climber Peak Marcello (14), decides to scale the Woolworth Building and lands in jail.
A funny and moving take on friendship and adolescence. The well-crafted IM-lingo of the prose is richly saturated with contemporary references (googlewhacking, The OC, the Taliban) which, while they might prevent the novel from aging well, keep it perfectly placed in the moment.
As the three resolve their differences, they confront sex, drugs and the miserable difficulties of social life at 16. The friends try to stay in touch using IM, but Maddy’s obsessed with her new stoner friends and Angela and Zoe are fighting over Doug. When Angela’s family moves to California, she’s heartbroken at being taken from everyone she knows. Zoe and Angela won’t tell Maddy how worried they are that she’s smoking pot to impress a boy. Zoe doesn’t tell Angela that she’s hooked up with Doug, who’s had a crush on Angela for ages. Since her first novel, Kissing Kate, was published in 2003, Myracle has written numerous books and series including: the Internet Girls series, The Winnie Years, Flower Power, the Life of Ty and the Wishing Series.Angela, Maddy and Zoe are totally BFF-best friends forever-and tell each other everything in their constant instant-message conversations. She would go on to earn an MA in English from Colorado State University and an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College.
After graduation, she taught middle-school in Georgia and participated in an exchange and teaching program (JET) in Japan. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received her BA in English and Psychology. She was born on May 15, 1969, in Brevard, North Carolina and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. Lauren Myracle is an American author of YA fiction. Now high school juniors, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela continue to share "instant messages" with one another as one of them experiments with marijuana, another gets her first boyfriend, and the third moves three thousand miles away.
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