Friction : a novel

Resource Information

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Label

Friction : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

by E.R. Frank

Creator

• Frank, E. R

Subject

• JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Adolescence
• Teacher-student relationships
• Child sexual abuse -- Juvenile fiction
• Electronic books
• Bildungsromans
• Coming of age -- Fiction
• Teacher-student relationships -- Fiction
• Juvenile works
• Fiction
• Teacher-student relationships -- Juvenile fiction
• Bildungsromans -- Juvenile literature
• Child sexual abuse -- Fiction
• Child sexual abuse

Genre

• Juvenile literature
• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

When a new girl at the private school Alex attends starts rumors about Alex's favorite teacher, Alex and her eighth-grade classmates are not sure how to act around him or with each other. Simon is the coolest teacher anywhere. Forest Alternative is lucky to have him. When Stacy arrives -- a new kid with secrets, gleaming hair, and a tongue ring -- she sizes up Simon and agrees, adding: "He is a total babe." True. What Stacy says later about Alex and Simon after the class overnight camp out is not true, but looks as if it could be. Alex herself begins to wonder what's real, what's not. But she can't confide in her parents. They'd freak. And, after all, she does love Simon. Listening to Stacy though, everyone else is totally suckered -- most painfully Alex's best buddy and sort-of boyfriend, Tim. "Why were you hugging him?" Tim wants to know, and it's hard to explain. Simon did not do what Stacy claims!

Cataloging source

TEFOD

Dewey number

FIC

Index

no index present

LC call number

PZ7.F84913

LC item number

Fr 2004eb

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

pre adolescent