Misdirected
A Novel
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- 9,99 €
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- 9,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
Misdirected is the story of fifteen-year-old Ben, who moves to a small conservative Colorado town where his atheism seems to be the only thing about him that matters to everyone. His classmates bully him for not fitting in, his teachers don’t understand him, and with his brother serving in Iraq and his sister away at college with problems of her own, Ben is left on his own to figure things out. Being a teen is tricky to navigate when you’re an outsider, and Ben struggles to find his place without compromising who he is. He rebels against his teachers, he argues with his classmates, and he rejects what others believe, bringing the reader with him on his enlightening journey as he learns the value of challenging accepted beliefs—including his own.
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Berman's debut introduces 15-year-old Ben Pinter, who has moved with his family from Boston to Forest Ridge, Colo. In addition to being forced to leave behind his friends, Ben's brother is away serving in Iraq and his sister is at college in New York City, so he's facing his sophomore year at Christian Heritage Academy alone. Ben is unprepared for life in a town where nearly everyone appears to be a conservative Christian: some classmates at his new school share stories about being saved (a concept Ben is wholly unfamiliar with) during a school-wide assembly, creationism is taught in science class, and Ben's atheism quickly makes him a target for evangelism, scorn, and bullying. Befriending two fellow outsiders, including a girl he starts dating in secret, helps keep Ben's spirits afloat, but he continues to struggle daily at school. Berman brings in numerous hot-button issues, but the book's conflicts and dialogue never escape a preachy, didactic tone, and the characters are little more than mouthpieces for various perspectives and beliefs. Ages 12 up.
