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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Teaser Tuesday[148]: Geography Club (Russel Middlebrook, #1) by Brent Hartinger


Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

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Geography Club (Russel Middlebrook, #1) by Brent Hartinger

Genre: YA Contemporary; LGBTQ+

Publisher: HarperCollins

Release Date: 2003




Goodreads Synopsis:



Russel Middlebrook is convinced he's the only gay kid at Goodkind High School.

Then his online gay chat buddy turns out to be none other than Kevin, the popular but closeted star of the school's baseball team. Soon Russel meets other gay students, too. There's his best friend Min, who reveals that she is bisexual, and her soccer-playing girlfriend Terese. Then there's Terese's politically active friend, Ike.

But how can kids this diverse get together without drawing attention to themselves?

"We just choose a club that's so boring, nobody in their right mind would ever in a million years join it. We could call it Geography Club!"

Brent Hartinger's debut novel is a fast-paced, funny, and trenchant portrait of contemporary teenagers who may not learn any actual geography in their latest club, but who learn plenty about the treacherous social terrain of high school and the even more dangerous landscape of the human heart.



Excerpt:

“'She’s really not that bad once you get to know her.’
I had a mouthful of food, but I spoke up anyway. ‘What makes you think I think she’s bad?’” (Hardback, pg. 85)

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