Published: July 20, 2011
Words: 63655 (approximate)
Language: English

Ebook short description

It’s not about dogs. Or riots. It's about stealing waterfalls and holding them for ransom. It’s about using a guitar as an assault weapon. And living in a secret bedroom at a shopping mall. And having neighbors who are starting a software company in a garage. It’s another year of school in Menlo Park, California in the year 1998.

Extended description

Four smart kids. One busy town.

Hoot Howard collects waterfalls - until somebody steals them. He's a small boy with a big heart.

Bowie Brown plays guitar - and uses it as an assault weapon. He breaks things - rules, windows, collar bones.... (Read more) Four smart kids. One busy town.

Hoot Howard collects waterfalls - until somebody steals them. He's a small boy with a big heart.

Bowie Brown plays guitar - and uses it as an assault weapon. He breaks things - rules, windows, collar bones.

Jaz McGuire is determined to never grow up. She wants to never hear mention of ess ee ex.

Mimi Bucher grew up much too fast. She lives in a secret bedroom in a shopping mall.

A couple of neighbors nicknamed Curly and Moe just might be starting a multi-billion dollar software company in a garage - if only they can cash their first check.

It’s the beginning of another year of school in Menlo Park, California in the year 1998, a time of change, the end of a millennium.
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Tags

menlo park, martin guitar, google origin, bowie brown, hoot howard, mimi bucher, jaz mcguire

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Review by: Paul Swearingen on July 31, 2011 :
Joe Cottonwood gets it - that new teens, those who have just turned 13 and 14, can skip a couple of decades at the speed of a Hair Galaxy and pop right into their 40's.

And yet they can be light years apart - like Mimi, who harbors a deep, dark secret inside her but radiates power and manipulative ability, and tiny Jaz, who has yet to find out who she really is. Or little Hoot, who is mostly clueless about life and couldn't harm a fly, and big Bowie, who has known the rough side of humanity nearly all his life and knows how to protect himself and his home, even if it involves using a priceless triple-ought-forty-five C. F. Martin guitar as a weapon.

Cottonwood has captured all the emotions that are possible to run through teens, and his characters are almost larger than life in this novel, which is as masterful as those penned by Walter Dean Myers, Gary Soto, Paul Zindel, and S. E. Hinton. It's a powerful piece, and I recommend it without reservation.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

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