Lenny Kandell, smart aleck
Ellen Conford
Eleven-year-old Lenny wants to become the world's greatest stand-up comic, but with an enemy like Mousie he wonders if he'll have any future at all.
Read Time: ~4.4 hr
Away we go
by Emil Ostrovski (2016)
About this book
Westing is not your typical school. For starters, you have to have one very important quality in order to be admitted you have to be dying. Every student at Westing has been diagnosed with PPV, or the Peter Pan Virus, and no one is expected to live to graduation. What do you do when you go to a high school where no one has a future or any clue how to find meaning in their remaining days?
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraContemporary / Future
Protagonist / CoreAway we go Lead Character
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