Stoner & Spaz
by Ron Koertge
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Author: Ron KoertgeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-01-05
ISBN: 0763621501
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Candlewick
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Summary: 3 Stars
Ben has always been a misfit; he was born with cerebral palsy which made one side of his body shriveled and unusable. He thinks people are constantly making fun of him or feeling pity for him, and he hates feeling that way. Now he is in high school, living with his grandmother, and he has no friends. He spends spare time at the old movie theater in town, watching classic movies by himself.
One night Colleen, a girl from his school, comes and sits next to him at the movie theater. She is a drug addict who only seems to care about getting high. Colleen is the total opposite of Ben in every possible way, but she is the only person he has ever seen try to make a connection with him. Rather than shy away from him or pretend he or his disability doesn't exist, she touches him and teases him about his cerebral palsy. She becomes his first real friend and he hopes a possible love interest.
Through Colleen's friendship and the advice of a new woman who moves into his neighborhood, Ben starts to make moves toward interacting with more people in his school. Could it be possible that he is always alone not because his classmates are nervous around him but that he purposely sets himself apart from them?
I liked Ben's personality and the way it came through in his monologues in this book. His partial paralysis was always on his mind somewhere, but he didn't spend his whole life feeling sorry for himself.
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