Outside Rules: Short Stories about Non-Conformist Youth

by Claire Robson

Book Overview

Fourteen challenging and compassionate stories about outsiderteens. These compellingly readable stories focus on the vulnerability and resilience of adolescents as they try to fit in with their peers and move toward independence. Here are teens who are too brainy, unathletic, poor, the wrong religion, emotionally fragile, from non-traditional families, not model-thin, or simply bent on following a unique path. Shala is ridiculed when she wears...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892553162
• ISBN13: 9780892553167
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Persea Books
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12