Showing posts with label YA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YA. Show all posts
Description:
One
October morning, high school junior Bryan Dennison wakes up a different
person—helpful, generous, and chivalrous—a person whose new admirable qualities
he doesn’t recognize. Stranger still is the urge to tie a red sheet around his
neck like a cape.
Bryan soon realizes this compulsion to wear a red cape is accompanied by more unusual behavior. He can’t hold back from retrieving kittens from tall trees, helping little old ladies cross busy streets, and defending innocence anywhere he finds it.
Shockingly, at school, he realizes he used to be a bully. He’s attracted to the former victim of his bullying, Scott Beckett, though he has no memory of Scott from before “the change.” Where he’d been lazy in academics, overly aggressive in sports, and socially insecure, he’s a new person. And although he can recall behaving egotistically, he cannot remember his motivations.
Everyone, from his mother to his teachers to his “superjock” former pals, is shocked by his dramatic transformation. However, Scott Beckett is not impressed by Bryan’s newfound virtue. And convincing Scott he’s genuinely changed and improved, hopefully gaining Scott’s trust and maybe even his love, becomes Bryan’s obsession.
Bryan soon realizes this compulsion to wear a red cape is accompanied by more unusual behavior. He can’t hold back from retrieving kittens from tall trees, helping little old ladies cross busy streets, and defending innocence anywhere he finds it.
Shockingly, at school, he realizes he used to be a bully. He’s attracted to the former victim of his bullying, Scott Beckett, though he has no memory of Scott from before “the change.” Where he’d been lazy in academics, overly aggressive in sports, and socially insecure, he’s a new person. And although he can recall behaving egotistically, he cannot remember his motivations.
Everyone, from his mother to his teachers to his “superjock” former pals, is shocked by his dramatic transformation. However, Scott Beckett is not impressed by Bryan’s newfound virtue. And convincing Scott he’s genuinely changed and improved, hopefully gaining Scott’s trust and maybe even his love, becomes Bryan’s obsession.
Tags: Young
Adult, Paranormal Thriller
Blurb
Skate
punks, kleptomaniacs, clairvoyant visions and reincarnation...
...THE
SHEPHERD is unlike any other Young Adult novel you have ever read.
Mike
Evans here. Sixteen year old skate punk squatting in a white-trash trailer park
with my loser drunk Dad. Seems I lost most of my friends when Dad lost our home
in foreclosure. Only Anita stuck by me. Worse, I keep having strange
clairvoyant visions of things that always come true.
Then
I almost ran over Nadia in my Geo. A passing truck finished the job – left a
crumpled heap of skin and bone on the road. I fixed her. Me.
Now
this fourteen year old girl won’t leave me alone. I sorta let her sneak in my window
when she needs a place to crash.
I
have a double life: daytime at school, Anita, skating, and then my nights with
Nadia. She's my secret friend, gives me money and listens to my problems
when nobody else will.
My
world is spinning out of control. Old friends have turned enemy, my grisly
visions of death won’t quit, and Anita’s intentions make my head spin. Even
with all that, I’ve got bigger stuff to worry about.
Nadia’s
hiding something.
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