I'm sure many of you will remember with little fondness those high school years, in which you blundered around the school corridors in the hope that some one might understand you. Nope? Just me then? Okay..
Written by Chris Colfer (also known as Kurt from Glee), this book tells the story of Carson Phillips, an American high schooler who wants nothing more than to be a journalist at the New Yorker. However, in order to get onto the course at Northwestern University, he has to show that he can front something besides a writer's club because 'high school newspapers and clubs aren't cutting it any more'. But there is one small problem.. nobody in his school wants to willingly write for the school magazine.
So he chooses to blackmail his fellow peers to write for him. This might sound immorally correct, but bearing in mind none of them have ever been nice to him, it is probably more or less what they deserve.
Suffice to say, this book is wonderfully quotable; 'the ASSembly was today. That's not a typo, I say 'ASSembly' because it brings out the ASS in everyone who attends. Even the janitors act like baboons, and half of them have crippling arthritis'.
In short it is a wonderful book, both thought provoking and humerous with plenty to relate to. And its got a fair few twists thrown in there as well..
So to all of you high schoolers currently navigating the maze of bitchy students and stupid teachers.. Fear not! There is a book to help guide you along the way.
