Desire Lines, (Paperback)

from LaneLiterati

This novel was hard for me to gauge at first. I was going to give it a try, since the plausibility of this actually happening within a school is pretty good. The main character discovers that two of his girl classmates are dating, but keeps the secret to himself until he cracks under peer pressur...

from Debra_Armbruster

Emotionally, this was a difficult book to read. Gantos manages to squeeze so much ugliness, hatred, confusion and fear into just over 100 pages, that the reader needs time to collect themselves - as though they had just run a marathon. It is an important read, granting readers a front row seat to...

from librarybrandy

It took me a little bit at the beginning to decide if I liked this book, but by the time I got to the end, there was no question. It's rare to see a teen book with such a realistic narrator: a high-school sophomore catches two of his female classmates secretly dating, and rather than tell them, h...

from librarybrandy

It took me a little bit at the beginning to decide if I liked this book, but by the time I got to the end, there was no question. It's rare to see a teen book with such a realistic narrator: a high-school sophomore catches two of his female classmates secretly dating, and rather than tell them, h...