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The Last Exit to Normal | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Harmon
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Category: Book
List Price: $15.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 771103
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.1
ISBN: 0375840982
EAN: 9780375840982
ASIN: 0375840982
Publication Date: March 11, 2008
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Product Description
It’s true: After 17-year-old Ben’s father announces he’s gay and the family splits apart, Ben does everything he can to tick him off: skip school, smoke pot, skateboard nonstop, get arrested. But he never thinks he’ll end up yanked out of his city life and plunked down into a small Montana town with his dad and Edward, The Boyfriend. As if it’s not painful enough living in a hick town with spiked hair, a skateboard habit, and two dads, he soon realizes something’s not quite right with Billy, the boy next door. He’s hiding a secret about his family, and Ben is determined to uncover it and set things right. In an authentic, unaffected, and mordantly funny voice, Michael Harmon tells the wrenching story of an uprooted and uncomfortable teenaged guy trying to fix the lives around him–while figuring out his own.
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Moving story of differences and change. May 8, 2008
Michael Harmon's THE LAST EXIT TO NORMAL tells of Ben, whose life has been chaos ever since his father told him he was gay - and pulled him out of a troubled city life to move to a small town in Eastern Montana to live with him and his boyfriend. Ben's investigations of trouble at a house next door reveals a small town secret which is dangerous and challenging to all in this moving story of differences and change.
Loved the humor! March 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Michael Harmon has a great way of dealing with difficult subjects. I especially enjoyed that the author represented the main characters point of view in such an intelligent way.
The dry humor was so refreshing. Like, wearing Wranglers for the first time after being a "skater". Duct tape? Ouch!
This book would be enjoyed by either gender. The story has everything I expect a really great book to have. Excellent, don't miss it.
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