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Sponsored by young adult library services association. Hartinger was born in 1971 in washington state and grew up in tacoma, washington. Read geography club by brent hartinger available from rakuten kobo. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Hartinger has successfully balanced the key elements of selfdiscovery, hope, suspense and romance like a man who has reached the far side of a tightrope. Brent hartinger s debut novel is a fastpaced, funny, and trenchant portrait of contemporary teenagers who may not learn any actual geography in their latest school club, but who learn plenty about the treacherous social terrain of a typical american high school and the even more dangerous landscape of the human. Lucy pitt a remarkable independent character with a strong personality is what makes this book unforgettable.
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