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1 online resource (1 audio file (15hr., 30 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Matthew Brown. |
| Summary |
Three freshmen must join forces to survive at a troubled, working-class Catholic high school with a student body full of bullies and zealots, and a faculty that's even worse in Anthony Breznican's Brutal Youth. With a plunging reputation and enrollment rate, Saint Michael's has become a crumbling dumping ground for expelled delinquents and a haven for the stridently religious when incoming freshman Peter Davidek signs up. On his first day, tensions are clearly on the rise as a picked-upon upperclassmen finally snaps, unleashing a violent attack on both the students who tormented him for so long, and the corrupt, petty faculty that let it happen. But within this desperate place, Peter befriends fellow freshmen Noah Stein, a volatile classmate whose face bears the scars of a hard-fighting past, and the beautiful but lonely Lorelei Paskal - so eager to become popular, she makes only enemies. To even stand a chance at surviving their freshmen year, the trio must join forces as they navigate a bullying culture dominated by administrators like the once-popular Ms. Bromine, their embittered guidance counselor, and Father Mercedes, the parish priest who plans to scapegoat the students as he makes off with church finances. A coming-of-age tale reversed, Brutal Youth follows these students as they discover that instead of growing older and wiser, going bad may be the only way to survive. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
High school students -- Fiction.
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Catholic high schools -- Fiction.
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Bullying in schools -- Fiction.
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School violence -- Fiction.
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Maturation (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Brown, Matthew, 1974- narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781427251862 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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142725186X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11958317 |
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