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- W1964452889 abstract "Reviewed by: Flash Burnout Jeff Chang Madigan, L. K. Flash Burnout. Houghton, 2009. 332p. ISBN 978-0-547-19489-9 $16.00 R Gr. 8-10 High school sophomore Blake likes to give himself points whenever he delivers a funny quip, and most days Blake's mental point tally is pretty high; he's especially good at amusing his beautiful and caring girlfriend, Shannon. He has nothing funny to say to his friend and photography classmate Marissa, though, when it turns out that the homeless woman Blake photographed is Marissa's estranged, meth-addicted mother. Blake decides to try and help his friend repair her broken home life, searching for Marissa's mother and then supporting Marissa once the two are reunited. It's clear that Blake genuinely feels for Marissa and that he's becoming increasingly attached to her, and that results in realistically tangled implications for his feelings about and his relationship with Shannon. In Blake, Madigan presents a convincing, caring high-school boy with a tricky adult dilemma, and readers will find it easy to sympathize with the protagonist when he stumbles; in fact, all of the principal characters are treated as real people with understandable viewpoints. The book is especially good at building the relationships slowly and showing the nuances and confusion inherent in various kinds of intimacy, including the familial intimacy depicted in Blake's relationship with older brother Garrett. The reader is never promised a happy ending, and thankfully one isn't offered; instead, the book offers a more complex parting shot: a little hurtful, a little hopeful, much like life. Copyright © 2010 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois" @default.
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- W1964452889 title "<i>Flash Burnout</i> (review)" @default.
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