This realistic fiction novel has three stories in one. Mr. Nak has an anger management group of misfit teenagers. Sarah Byrnes and Angus Bethune, both 18 years old. Angus takes Sarah on a date and tells her all about his parents, both being gay. Sarah tells Angus about her abusive father, and how he held her face over the hot pot bellied stove and that is how she got her scars. Angus decides to help her find her mother, who lives in Reno. When they get there, she finds that her mother has replaced her with another daughter, also named Sarah. Novella number 2 is about Montana Wild. She is a high school student who is adopted. Her little sister, also adopted, is very hard to handle. Montana tries to get her parents to keep her little sister, but the parents do not listen. They give her back. She tells her parents that she is going as well. Novella number 3 was the one that I really liked. It is about Marcus James, a very smart, very gay, black high school senior. The members of the football team put a pink noose on his locker. He comes to class with the noose around his neck. Everyone in authority is appalled by the behavior. No one admits it, but the student body and James know who did it. The superintendent brings all together for an assembly to discuss the hate crime. James just wants it to go away. Matt Miller, a member of the football team, tells the whole assembly who was involved with the noose incident. After, James and Matt forgive each other. James is going to the lake to swim. He puts a flag around his waist, so that boats will see him. Matt is also at the lake. He calls 9-1-1 because a terrible accident occurs. James is murdered by the football players who are on a boat. Matt finds out the truth and goes to James' grandfather's house and talks to him about James. This would be good to teach about diversity and tolerance.
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