You

by Charles Benoit Narrated by David Baker

Overview

This wasn't the way it was supposed to go.

You're just a typical fifteen-year-old sophomore, an average guy named Kyle Chase. This can't be happening to you. But then, how do you explain all the blood? How do you explain how you got here in the first place?

There had to have been signs, had to have been some clues it was coming. Did you miss them, or ignore them? Maybe if you can figure out where it all went wrong, you can still make it right. Or is it already too late? Think fast, Kyle. Time's running out. How did this happen?

You is the riveting story of fifteen-year-old Kyle and the small choices he does and doesn't make that lead to his own destruction.

In his stunning young-adult debut, Charles Benoit mixes riveting tension with an insightful-and unsettling-portrait of an ordinary teen in a tale that is taut, powerful, and shattering.

Advance praise for You:

""You is authentic, ambitious, and gripping. A serious book that reads like a suspense novel, the story it tells-of the ways in which we become imprisoned by our own choices, big and small-is both frightening and frighteningly real.""

-Lauren Oliver, New York Times bestselling author of Before I Fall

""Charles Benoit has written a shattering, gut-wrenching novel that puts You right in the center of the story. Pick it up and you won't put it down!""

-Michael Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Gone

""I sat down to start this book-and didn't get up until I'd finished it, a riveting three hours later. You is pitch-perfect: funny, real, touching, brimming with tension and foreboding-and still surprising right up to the last page. one of the best ya novels I've read in years.""

-Patricia McCormick, National Book Award finalist, author of Sold and Purple Heart

""A sandstorm of a novel, as harshly real as hell or high school. I loved it.""

-Robert Lipsyte, Margaret A. Edwards Award-winning author of The Contender and Center Field

""Wanna know who the real bad guys in your school are? Read You. This book will keep you reading, and then it will start you thinking. And talking. You is good stuff.""

-Chris Crutcher, Margaret A. Edwards Award-winning author of Deadline

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Benoit is a rare discovery.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Wanna know who the REAL bad guys in your school are? Read You. This book will keep you reading, and then it will start you thinking. And talking. You is GOOD stuff.” — Sara

Sara M.

Wanna know who the REAL bad guys in your school are? Read You. This book will keep you reading, and then it will start you thinking. And talking. You is GOOD stuff.

Sara

Wanna know who the REAL bad guys in your school are? Read You. This book will keep you reading, and then it will start you thinking. And talking. You is GOOD stuff.

Chris Crutcher

Wanna know who the REAL bad guys in your school are? Read You. This book will keep you reading, and then it will start you thinking. And talking. You is GOOD stuff.

Kirkus Reviews

Quiet, hoodie-wearing slacker Kyle Chase has anger-control issues and wants to be left alone by his teachers, his parents and the rest of the world. He's constantly in trouble at school, and he spends most of his time hanging out with his similarly washed-up friends or pining after his crush. That is, until he meets Zack, a mysteriously manipulative bon vivant who takes him under his wing. At first Zack's schemes seem harmless—especially when they protect Kyle—but when they turn dangerous, Kyle finds he's in too deep to escape. Told completely in the second person, Benoit's first YA effort reads sharply and seamlessly, full of staccato, cut-to-the-action prose that will rivet teen readers à la Gail Giles or Kate Morgenroth. Readers will know that a train wreck is inevitable, and clever foreshadowing hints at Kyle's eventual downfall. Characters are all fully fleshed, with the exception of Kyle's parents, who sound more like adults in a Peanuts comic strip than parents. The novel's disturbing, ambiguous conclusion will provoke discussions about choices, right/wrong and responsibility. Harrowing. (Fiction. 12 & up)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940173529008
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	10/12/2010
Edition description:	Unabridged
Age Range:	10 - 13 Years

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