King of the Screwups

Fat Kid Rules the World

The Garden of Eve

While I Was Away

Kendra

The Black Kids

Merci Suárez Can't Dance

Diary of a Witness

I am not so bad a person once you get to know me.

When Iggy Corso gets kicked out of high school, there's no one for him to tell. His mother has gone off, his father is stoned on the couch, and the phone's been disconnected, so even the social worker can't get through. Leaving his public housing behind, Iggy ventures into the world to make something of his life. It's not easy when you're sixteen, have no skills, and your only friend is mixed up with the dealer who got your mom hooked. But Iggy is . . . Iggy, and he has the kind of wisdom that lets him see what no one else can.

K. L. Going's third novel is a haunting achievement about a young man's tragic search for meaning in a world that to him makes no sense.

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King of the Screwups

K.L. Going, 2009

Fat Kid Rules the World

K.L. Going, 2003

The Garden of Eve

K.L. Going, 2007

While I Was Away

Waka T. Brown, 2021

Kendra

Coe Booth, 2008

The Black Kids

Christina Hammonds Reed, 2020

Merci Suárez Can't Dance

Meg Medina, 2021

Diary of a Witness

Catherine Ryan Hyde, 2009