Charleston County Public Library

Rumble, Ellen Hopkins

eng

no index present

Ages 14 and up

fiction

Rumble

861335249

Ellen Hopkins

Reading Counts, High School, 5.5, 17.Accelerated Reader AR, 4.9, 11.0, 169978., MCPLAccelerated Reader, Grades 9-12, 4.9, 11, SD, Quiz 169978, English fiction.

Matthew Turner knows it doesn't get better. His younger brother Luke was bullied mercilessly after one of Matt's friends outed Luke to the whole school, and when Luke called Matt -- on the brink of suicide -- Matt was too wrapped up in his new girlfriend to answer the phone. Now Luke is gone, and Matt's family is falling apart. No matter what his girlfriend Hayden says about forgiveness, there's no way Matt's letting those he blames off the hook -- including himself. As Matt spirals further into bitterness, he risks losing Hayden, the love of his life. But when her father begins to pressure the school board into banning books because of their homosexual content, he begins to wonder if he and Hayden ever had anything in common

adolescent