For sixteen-year-old Badi Hessamizadeh, life is a series of
humiliations. After withdrawing from public school under mysterious
circumstances, Badi enters Magnificat Academy. To make things “easier,”
his dad has even given
him a new name: Bud Hess.
Grappling with his
Iranian-American identity, clinical depression, bullying, and a barely
bottled rage, Bud is an outcast who copes by resorting to small revenges
and covert acts of defiance, but the pressures of his home life,
plummeting grades, and the unrequited affection of his new friend,
Nikki, prime him for a more dangerous revolution.
Strange letters to the
editor begin to appear in Magnificat’s newspaper, hinting that some
tragedy will befall the school. Suspicion falls on Bud, and he and Nikki
struggle to uncover the real culprit and clear Bud’s name.
Call #: YA Stella, Leslie NEW
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