![]() Peak must learn to navigate the extreme and exotic terrain but negotiate a code of ethics among men. ![]() To save him, his long-lost Everest-trekking dad appears with a plan for the duo to make a life in Katmandu-a smokescreen to make Peak become the youngest person in history to summit Mount Everest. 12-15)ĭare-devil mountain-climber Peak Marcello (14), decides to scale the Woolworth Building and lands in jail. A funny and moving take on friendship and adolescence. The well-crafted IM-lingo of the prose is richly saturated with contemporary references (googlewhacking, The OC, the Taliban) which, while they might prevent the novel from aging well, keep it perfectly placed in the moment. ![]() As the three resolve their differences, they confront sex, drugs and the miserable difficulties of social life at 16. ![]() The friends try to stay in touch using IM, but Maddy’s obsessed with her new stoner friends and Angela and Zoe are fighting over Doug. When Angela’s family moves to California, she’s heartbroken at being taken from everyone she knows. Zoe and Angela won’t tell Maddy how worried they are that she’s smoking pot to impress a boy. Zoe doesn’t tell Angela that she’s hooked up with Doug, who’s had a crush on Angela for ages. Angela, Maddy and Zoe are totally BFF-best friends forever-and tell each other everything in their constant instant-message conversations. ![]()
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