Surf Mules

by G. Neri

Overview

Logan never dreamed he would chop off his surfer shag, put on a Sears suit, and carry a Young Republicans ID card. But he'd rather look like a straight-laced loser than risk attracting any attention. Why? To raise money for college, he's driving nonstop from Cali to Orlando. And he definitely doesn't want anyone sniffing around inside his car.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467766067
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/01/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	292
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty and the recipient of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award for his free verse novella, Chess Rumble. His novels include Surf Mules and the Horace Mann Upstander Award-winning Ghetto Cowboy. His latest books include the YA novel Knockout Games, and the picture book biography Hello, I'm Johnny Cash. His work has been honored by the Museum of Tolerance and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Antioch University, the International Reading Association, the American Library Association, the Junior Library Guild, and the National Council for Teachers of English. Neri has been a filmmaker, animator, teacher, and digital media producer. He currently writes full-time and lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida with his wife and daughter.

Editorial Reviews

. . . a powerful story . . . this will find an audience among teens looking for gritty contemporary fiction.

Booklist

At the end of their senior year, three Southern California teenage surfers mark time while seeking the Perfect Monster Wave. Logan, Z-Boy and Fin, once known as the Three Musketeers, have drifted apart due to Fin's surfing stardom. Logan and Z-Boy simply hang loose and smoke weed. When Fin tragically drowns, Logan and Z-Boy are awash with grief. Needing quick cash, they fall back on what they know and are hired as drug mules to drive a car stuffed with pot from Los Angeles to Orlando. Fueled by junk food and Mountain Dew, the journey starts off cool, but their friendship unravels under the stress of performing a felony. Neri sandwiches his story between a crackling opening and a whipsaw climactic scene, but jumbled sideplots cause some sagging around the middle, in which the happy-go-lucky tone seems out of step with the serious situation. Still, older boys who say they've never read anything will be attracted to the novel's profanity, prodigious amounts of pot and friendship on the brink of disaster. (Fiction. YA)

Kirkus Reviews