Ryan Dean West is a
fourteen-year-old junior at a boarding school for rich kids. He’s living
in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers, and rooming with the
biggest bully on the rugby team. And he’s madly in love with his best
friend Annie, who thinks of him as a little boy.
With the help of
his sense of humor, rugby buddies, and his penchant for doodling
comics, Ryan Dean manages to survive life’s complications and even find
some happiness along the way. But when the unthinkable happens, he has
to figure out how to hold on to what’s important, even when it feels
like everything has fallen apart.
Filled with hand-drawn
info-graphics and illustrations and told in a pitch-perfect voice, this
realistic depiction of a teen’s experience strikes an exceptional
balance of hilarious and heartbreaking
My thoughts
Winger
is one of those books that you pick up and happily read and laugh along
to before it unexpectedly smashes you in the chest and leaves you an
emotional wreck.
I…