This is for the Middle School and High School set. There are cuss words, fights, poker, drinking for the first time and falling in love. There is also rugby. There are not a lot of books out there about rugby, so when we hear of one, we take note.
Here is what Amazon sez, "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."
The NY Times says, "Of all the young adult genres — the Dystopian Hellscape, the Human-Monster Romance, the Elite School-or-Camp for Nonmortals — the most popular right now may be the quietest: Aspiring John Green. GreenLit, as I like to call it, consists of realistic stories told by a funny, self-aware teenage narrator. These novels tend to have sharp dialogue, defective authority figures, occasional boozing, unrequited crushes and one or more heartbreaking twists."
A twelve year old I happen to know says, "I stayed up all night reading the last 200 pages. It was really good."
Check it out.
http://www.amazon.com/Winger-Smith-Andrew/dp/1442444924/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383493632&sr=8-1&keywords=winger
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