My Chemical Mountain

Authors: Vacco, Corina
Lexile: 740,
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
BISAC/Subject: YAF058000, YAF058120, YAF018060
ISBN: 9780307975041, Related ISBNs: 0307975045, 0375990577, 0385742428, 0385742436, 9780307975041
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 192,
Audience: Young adult
Synopsis:

   Rocked by his father's recent death and his mother's sudden compulsion to overeat, Jason lashes out by breaking into the abandoned mills and factories that plague his run-down town. Always by his side are his two best friends, Charlie, a fearless thrill junkie, and Cornpup, a geek inventor whose back is covered with cysts. The boys rage against the noxious pollution that suffocates their town and despise those responsible for it; at the same time, they embrace the danger of their industrial wasteland and boast about living on the edge. 

   Then on a night the boys vandalize one of the mills,  Jason makes a costly mistake--and unwittingly becomes a catalyst for change. In a town like his, change should be a good thing. There's only one problem: change is what Jason fears most of all.

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