The odds of loving Grover Cleveland

a novel

260 pages

English language

Published Dec. 22, 2016

ISBN:
978-1-5039-3982-0
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OCLC Number:
950958397

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"According to sixteen-year-old Zander Osborne, nowhere is an actual place&#x;and she&#x;s just fine there. But her parents insist that she get out of her head&#x;and her home state&#x;and attend Camp Padua, a summer camp for at-risk teens.Zander does not fit in&#x;or so she thinks. She has only one word for her fellow campers: crazy. In fact, the whole camp population exists somewhere between disaster and diagnosis. There&#x;s her cabin mate Cassie, a self-described manic-depressive-bipolar-anorexic. Grover Cleveland (yes, like the president), a cute but confrontational boy who expects to be schizophrenic someday, odds being what they are. And Bek, a charmingly confounding pathological liar.But amid group (-آsوْفم(٣sessions and forbidden late-night outings, unlikely friendships form, and as the Michigan summer heats up, the four teens begin to reveal their tragic secrets. Zander finds herself inextricably drawn to Grover&#x;s earnest charms, and she begins to wonder if she could be happy. But first …

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Subjects

  • Young adult fiction
  • Camps
  • Friendship
  • Fiction
  • Youth with social disabilities
  • Teenagers
  • Problem youth