Twelve

Creating a sensation around the world when it was first published, Twelve established it's seventeen-year-old author as a powerful voice of the new millennium. The chilling novel follows prep school dropout White Mike through the week between Christmas and New Year's 1999, as he takes a year off to deal an alluring new drug to his privileged peers on Manhattan's Upper East Side. But Twelve is not a coming-of-age story, because its kids never had a childhood--their parents are off on holiday in Bali or business in Brussels, leaving hired help to look the other way as the kids stay home alone in their multimillion-dollar town houses, partying with drugs and sex and, in the end, much worse.

Author: Nick McDonell
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 04/14/2003
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.58w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780802140128

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.3
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 67947 / Twelve


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/01/2003 pg. 36
Kliatt 07/01/2003 pg. 24