Out of Reach

By V.M. Jones

Book Overview

Pip dreads every soccer match. His father is always there, yelling and arguing, pushing him to be more like his older brother, a winner. Plus, there's the girl next door who outshines him on the field and overlooks him off of it. Then one day, Pip stumbles into a new world inside a rock-climbing gym. He even stumbles into a new, cooler name: Phil. But he still has to find a way to break free from the old world and his father's grip. An award-winning New Zealand author makes her U.S. debut with this powerful novel. " And in the unreal twilight of the deserted Igloo, it was as if someone else had taken over my body...and my mind. Suddenly I wasn't Pip McLeod, forever messing up. Pip; Pippin; Piphead; Pipsqueak: battling to be the son Dad wanted, and never even coming close. No--this was a new me, Philip McLeod, who'd been hidden away somewhere deep inside...who with each new handhold, was slowly but surely clambering his way out ."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477817050
• ISBN13: 9781477817056
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Skyscape
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12