Jerk, California

Twitch. Jerk. Freak.

SCHNEIDER FAMILY BOOK AWARD WINNER • Sam Carrier has been called them all. Because of his Tourette Syndrome, Sam is in near constant motion with tics and twitches and verbal outbursts. So, of course, high school is nothing but torment.

Forget friends, forget even hoping that beautiful, perfect Naomi will look his way. And home isn’t much better with his domineering stepfather reminding him that the only person who was more useless than Sam was his dead father, James.

But then an unexpected turn of events unearths the truth about his father. And suddenly, Same doesn’t know who he is or even where he’ll go next. What he does know is that the only girl in the world who can make him happy and nervous at the same time is everywhere he turns . . . and he’d give anything to just be still.