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The Outsiders meets Erin Brockovich meets Bridge to Terabithia in this highoctane drama. TIM THARP, author of The Spectacular Now, National Book Award finalist, calls My Chemical Mountain A gritty, surprising story that confronts important personal and social issues headon.Jason and his friends live for the rush of racing their dirt bikes on Chemical Mountain and swimming in orange, chunky Two Mile Creek. But they hate wealthy and powerful Mareno Chem, the company responsible for invading their territory, polluting their town, and killing Jason's father. The boys want to get even. But revenge has a priceand more than one person will pay.Winner of the Thirtieth Annual Delacorte Press Prize for a First YA NovelA Bankstreet Best Book of the YearReminiscent of The Outsiders. . . . Dark and unflinching. Kirkus ReviewsWritten in the tradition of such early twentiethcentury muckrakers as Upton Sinclair, Frank Norris, and Ida M. Tarbell. Angry and urgent, topical and timely."BooklistFrom Jasons complex teenage boy perspective, [Vacco] captures both the disheartening helplessness of the situation and the boys reckless resistance: We cross a landfill on our way to school. We swim in creek water that smells like nail polish remover . . . We are not fools. We are brave and brilliant. There is power and hope in that kind of statement, and Jasons comingofage tale, though dark, is full of both. The Horn Book MagazineGrim but impressive debut . . . lyrical prose and strong characters make it worth the read. Publishers WeeklyA budding romance and subtle insight into Jasons changing relationship with his friends guarantee that theres a little something for all readers in this wellthoughtout, wellexecuted story. School Library JournalThe scenes, the attitudes, the desperation are brilliantly rendered. . . . My Chemical Mountain offers something of that punchinthegut ethos of hardboiled detectives, transferred to bluecollar youth living in a cauldron of pollution. The Tonawanda NewsCorina Vacco shows us reallife monsters, up close and very personal. ELLEN KLAGES, author of The Green Glass Sea
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