10th Grade by Joseph Weisberg Jeremy is in (you guessed it) 10th grade. He keeps a journal for English, and this is it(I'm feeling sarcastic). His entries read like connected short stories and don't really flow together, as much as fit together, in the way that puzzle pieces do. The review on the cover from
Entertainment Weekly says "exactly likea high school sophmore.... as punctuation plays hooky and sentences lilariously run past the bell." I think that the lack of punctuation and bad grammar is really overdone, though, and I'm probably a lot closer to being in 10th grade than
Entertainment Weekly's reviewer.
Style aside, this is a story and a group of stories about the confusing parts of being in 10th grade, and trying to go out, and experimenting with drugs. The teenagers in this story are really naive, but not enough that they are totally idiotic. The setting is a suburb of NYC. Jeremy talks about the different groups of friends that he hangs out with- the soccer team, the rebels, and later on, the popular kids.
Happy reading.
