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Endgame | Nancy Garden

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After bullying incidents lead him to carry a knife to school, Gray Wilton finds himself suspended, and uprooted. Starting High School with a clean slate, and in a new town, he hopes that somehow things will be better in Connecticut. Maybe he can try harder, maybe the kids will be nicer, maybe his father will understand.

But though he makes some friends, and joins the school band, where he can play drums, it doesn’t take long for the bullies to find him. Teachers look the other way. Ignoring them doesn’t make them stop, fighting back only makes it worse, telling makes it worst of all. His father is just as angry, his life seems just as hopeless.

Throughout Gray’s story we feel his pain, and see the world through his eyes, and understand how he came to feel so low. And yet even with all said and done he doesn’t seem quite able to understand what’s truly happened, what he’s really done, the impact of his actions.

A sincere look into the everyday events of teenage life, and how the actions of those around us can escalate from harmless to deadly when carefully averted eyes refuse to see.

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