Borderline
Borderline is a skewed coming-of-age story of a normal boy in a crazy world -- a fast-paced world of high-tech gismos, global air travel and antibiotics, a world in which high schools have replaced cafeterias with fast food counters and the scourges of autism, asthma, allergies, diabetes and obesity are the norm.
Picture Holden Caulfield today: smart but unfocussed; energetic but restless; creative but disorganized. He's mostly unmotivated, really messing up at school. He hates his autistic little brother Austin. With his mother obsessed about curing Austin, and his scientist father immersed in his research, Guy, the twelve-year-old Everyman his name implies, gets ignored. "I might as well be the Guy in the moon for all they care," he says.
Meanwhile, Guy's father seeks to replicate the evolution of the dog from their forebears, wolves, by breeding the tamest wolves to the tamest wolves, generation after generation. Guy bonds with JX104, a wolf-dog in his father's dog lab. Wolf, as Guy renames him, is one of the dogs who fall between the cracks. He never does become tame enough to breed, and as a final straw, half-chews someone's hand off. Guy and his friend Matt decided to break Wolf out that night, and to return him to the wilderness. In the end, three boys and one wolf take a ride in a stolen SUV back to the wilderness.
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Picture Holden Caulfield today: smart but unfocussed; energetic but restless; creative but disorganized. He's mostly unmotivated, really messing up at school. He hates his autistic little brother Austin. With his mother obsessed about curing Austin, and his scientist father immersed in his research, Guy, the twelve-year-old Everyman his name implies, gets ignored. "I might as well be the Guy in the moon for all they care," he says.
Meanwhile, Guy's father seeks to replicate the evolution of the dog from their forebears, wolves, by breeding the tamest wolves to the tamest wolves, generation after generation. Guy bonds with JX104, a wolf-dog in his father's dog lab. Wolf, as Guy renames him, is one of the dogs who fall between the cracks. He never does become tame enough to breed, and as a final straw, half-chews someone's hand off. Guy and his friend Matt decided to break Wolf out that night, and to return him to the wilderness. In the end, three boys and one wolf take a ride in a stolen SUV back to the wilderness.
Borderline
Borderline is a skewed coming-of-age story of a normal boy in a crazy world -- a fast-paced world of high-tech gismos, global air travel and antibiotics, a world in which high schools have replaced cafeterias with fast food counters and the scourges of autism, asthma, allergies, diabetes and obesity are the norm.
Picture Holden Caulfield today: smart but unfocussed; energetic but restless; creative but disorganized. He's mostly unmotivated, really messing up at school. He hates his autistic little brother Austin. With his mother obsessed about curing Austin, and his scientist father immersed in his research, Guy, the twelve-year-old Everyman his name implies, gets ignored. "I might as well be the Guy in the moon for all they care," he says.
Meanwhile, Guy's father seeks to replicate the evolution of the dog from their forebears, wolves, by breeding the tamest wolves to the tamest wolves, generation after generation. Guy bonds with JX104, a wolf-dog in his father's dog lab. Wolf, as Guy renames him, is one of the dogs who fall between the cracks. He never does become tame enough to breed, and as a final straw, half-chews someone's hand off. Guy and his friend Matt decided to break Wolf out that night, and to return him to the wilderness. In the end, three boys and one wolf take a ride in a stolen SUV back to the wilderness.
Picture Holden Caulfield today: smart but unfocussed; energetic but restless; creative but disorganized. He's mostly unmotivated, really messing up at school. He hates his autistic little brother Austin. With his mother obsessed about curing Austin, and his scientist father immersed in his research, Guy, the twelve-year-old Everyman his name implies, gets ignored. "I might as well be the Guy in the moon for all they care," he says.
Meanwhile, Guy's father seeks to replicate the evolution of the dog from their forebears, wolves, by breeding the tamest wolves to the tamest wolves, generation after generation. Guy bonds with JX104, a wolf-dog in his father's dog lab. Wolf, as Guy renames him, is one of the dogs who fall between the cracks. He never does become tame enough to breed, and as a final straw, half-chews someone's hand off. Guy and his friend Matt decided to break Wolf out that night, and to return him to the wilderness. In the end, three boys and one wolf take a ride in a stolen SUV back to the wilderness.
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| BN ID: | 2940013648265 |
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| Publisher: | Bonnie Rozanski |
| Publication date: | 08/04/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 205 |
| File size: | 234 KB |
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