100 Sideways Miles
by Andrew Smith
Buy on AmazonFinn Easton, sixteen and epileptic, struggles to feel like more than just a character in his father's cult-classic novels with the help of his best friend, Cade Hernandez, and first love, Julia, until Julia moves away.
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"If you’re a young boy and a dead horse falls off a bridge, kills your mother, and leaves you with deep scars — and you’re prone to epileptic seizures — you’d come to expect the unexpected. Still, it doesn’t mean you have to like it. In the shadow of his best friend, the popular and athletic Cade, and forever tied to his fictional namesake in his father’s best-selling sci-fi novel, Finn has trouble figuring out who he’s supposed to be. Then he meets a new girl and for the first time writes his own story. Hilarious and heartbreaking, you’ll be rooting for Finn all the way."
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