When Jamie, nicknamed "Punkzilla, " travels by bus to see his fatally ill older brother, Peter, he writes letters to him detailing his experiences along the way.
A runaway teenager, having overcome his addiction to meth, travels across the country from Portland to Memphis in order to reconnect with his dying brother and meets a colorful cast of characters along the way.
In a future society where everyone zooms around in a perpetually stimulated haze, Angela joins a resistance movement where the key to rebellion is slowing down.
Corinthia Bledsoe, who is over seven feet tall, has the ability to see the future, but after accurately describing the outcome of a tornado which hits her school, her life at school and at home becomes complicated in ways she couldn't forsee.
"A girl who thinks the rapid-fire, hyperkinetic culture of the country is counter-productive, is recruited into a resistance movement where the mode of survival is taking things...slow"--OCLC.
When Mike's mother and sister go on tour with "Les Miserables," Mike's father and his new wife enroll Mike in St. Matthew's Military Academy where, facing brutality and ignorance, he learns to survive.
Steve Nugen can't understand why he has been forced to live at the institution of Burnstone Grove; but as he begins to write in his journal, he learns important things about himself he had never been able to see before.
A runaway teenager, having overcome his addiction to meth, travels across the country from Portland to Memphis in order to reconnect with his dying brother and meets a colorful cast of characters along the way.
