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Reading Level: 3-4 • Interest Level: 9-12
Fifteen and Change
Author: Max Howard
Specs: 5 1/2” x 8 1/4” • 200 pp. • Written in verse, Excerpt from similar verse book,
Suggestions for further reading, About the Author, Hi-lo text
HC ed.: 978-1-5383-8260-8 • $25.80 | $19.40
eBook: 978-1-5383-8330-8 • $25.80 | $19.40
Pbk. ed.: 978-1-5383-8259-2 • $16.35 | $14.20
Zeke would love to be invisible. His mother is struggling to make ends meet and stuck
with a no-good boyfriend. Zeke knows he and his mom will be stuck forever if he doesn't
find some money fast. When Zeke starts working at a local pizza place, he meets labor
activists who want to give him a voice–and the living wage he deserves for his work.
Zeke has to decide between living the quiet life he's carved for himself and raising his voice for justice.
“Page-long free-verse poems evocatively describe Zeke’s experiences and quickly propel the story forward…Readers will easily sympathize with the all-too-true-to-life situations with which the characters are coping…This novel has many appealing aspects that will draw readers in.” —Kirkus
“This novel in verse has a sense of urgency. Short poems provide readers with snapshots of life in poverty, loneliness in high school, and the unfair treatment of fast food employees by management.” —School Library Journal
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