The Slot Machine - Couverture souple

Lynch, Chris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1853717908 ISBN 13 : 9781853717901

Editeur : Poolbeg Press Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

If you don't have a slot, what are we going to do with you? They call it Twenty-One Nights with the Knights. But for Elvin Bishop - fourteen, overweight, and a self- proclaimed non-athlete - the summer retreat is more like the twenty-one trials of hell. As everyone around him slips smoothly into a slot in his chosen sport, Elvin is pounded on the football field, slammed on the baseball diamond, and tortured on the wrestling mat. And he still can't find a slot.. From the acclaimed author of Shadow Boxer, here is a raw, darkly funny story about growing up and finding a place in the world. A Best Book for Young Adults.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"If you don't have a slot, what are we going to do with you?"

It's called Twenty-One Nights with the Knights. But for Elvin Bishop--fourteen, overweight, and a self-proclaimed nonathlete--this summer sports "retreat" is more like the twenty-one trials of hell.

As everyone around him, including his best friends, slips smoothly into athletic "slots," Elvin is pounded on the football field, slammed on the baseball diamond, and tortured on the wrestling mat--always coming out a complete failure. But appearances can be deceiving. Sometimes real strength comes from breaking the rules rather than playing the game. And sometimes finding acceptance is less about fitting in than about making your own way--with grit and humor.

All incoming freshmen at Flagship Academy’s summer program are suppose to find an athletic ‘slot’ for themselves. But there is no slot for Elvin, a wise-cracking, overweight sports incompetent who bounces from one humiliating game to another. How he discovers his own place for himself—with grit and humor—makes for "a funny, poignant coming-of-age story...[A] wry, thoughtful book [that] speaks with wisdom and heart to the victim and outsider in us all."—BL.

Bulletin Blue Ribbons 1995 (C)
1996 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)
1996 Best Books for Reluctant Young Adult Readers (ALA)
Books for Youth Editors' Choices 1995 (BL)
1996 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)
Young Adult Choices for 1997 (IRA/CBC)

Biographie de l'auteur :

Chris Lynch is a National Book Award finalist and the author of many highly acclaimed books for young adults, including The Big Game of Everything, Who the Man, and the Michael L. Printz Honor Book Freewill; Iceman, Shadow boxer, Gold Dust, and Slot Machine, all ALA Best Books for Young Adults; and Extreme Elvin. He also mentors aspiring writers and teaches in the creative writing program at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Poolbeg Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1853717908
• ISBN 13: 9781853717901
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256