Nancy Keane's Booktalks -- Quick and Simple

Google Custom Search
Lyga, Barry.  
BOY TOY
New York : Houghton Mifflin, 2007
IL YA
ISBN 0618723935
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews
 Haunted by knowing and staring eyes on a day-to-day basis because of a sexual encounter with a teacher at a young age, the main character is having immense social troubles, which isn't pleasant while being a senior in high school. When he was twelve, he was playing a spin the bottle game, he got overly aggressive with the girl, Rachel. After five years of silence, their friends are trying to get them back together, but can he get over his anti-sociality and have a girlfriend?  (Creighton, creightonamore@aol.com, K-12 student)
SUBJECTS:     Sexual abuse victims -- Fiction.
                        Emotional problems -- Fiction.
                        Baseball -- Fiction.
                        Psychotherapy -- Fiction.
                        Memory -- Fiction.
                        High schools -- Fiction.
                        Schools -- Fiction.

 
Main Page ** Author List ** Title List ** New This Month ** Interest Level ** Subject List ** FAQ's ** Contributors ** Booktalking Tips **Book Review Sources ** Reading lists ** Reading lists ** Awards **Nancy Keane's Children's Website ** nancy@nancykeane.com
Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License