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Senioritis

The Characters of Senioritis

Nakeisha, the ring-leader, lands herself in the 3 to 5 Program for responding to authority in a loud raucous manner.

Gemini, the genius, finds himself in the program because he fought for his place in the lunch line. He feels like he is placed in the program for AWB (Attending While Black).

Ricky Terrell, the football stud, finds himself in the program because he is failing English. Ricky believes he can get by because of who he is and because everyone needs him to go pro so they can live through him.

Patrick Matthews, the prospective salutatorian, lands himself in the program because of plagiarism. In the process, he is kicked out of National Honor Society.

Alex Green is in the program to make up credits he has missed from being homebound for depression and anxiety.

Jamal Lee is the too smart for his own good comedian of the group who winds up in the 3 to 5 Program because he got high.

LaStacia Foster is an actress, cheerleader, and track star who gets caught showing her popular butt to a group of peers on a band trip during a game of Truth or Dare.

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Compiled by members of the Missouri Library Association’s Young Adult Services Interest Group, these titles were chosen based on their popularity with young adults and on the advice of librarians who recommend them to their teen patrons and use them for booktalks. These are the final selections for YASIG’s picks to represent the best in young adult literature in 2003.

What Happened to Lani Garver by Carol Plum-Ucci

Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going

Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares

Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman

Alt Ed by Catherine Atkins

Senioritis by Tate Thompson

Shattering Glass by Gail Giles

King of the Mild Frontier by Chris Crutcher

Crispin:The Cross of Lead by Avi

Thief Lord by Cornelia Funk

Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers

Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

Hole in my life by Jack Gantos

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

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SENIORITIS is an edgy novel about a group of misfit high school teens from different backgrounds and popularity who wind up in an after school 3 to 5 p.m. program for various school infractions. They have to attend to their failings before they can graduate from high school. Each character writes his/her own journal why he/she is in the program and a caring mentor empathizes with their woes, encouraging them to solve their problems. During the course of a year this multicultural group melded. They not only performed a community service together by raising money with a concert in a mall to buy a bench there for a happy, but disoriented young boy to sit, but they also planned why, what, how the school principal should listen to what they had to say about his own teachers' inappropriate behavior. The biggest strength of this novel is that any low or high-level reader can pick up this book and find at least one character who they know, or who they actually are.

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