Permanent record, Leslie Stella
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- Iranian American teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- Iranian American teenagers -- Fiction
- Marginality, Social -- Fiction
- Emotional problems of teenagers -- Fiction
- Young adult fiction
- High school students + Psychology -- Fiction
- Marginality, Social -- Juvenile fiction
- Bullying -- Juvenile fiction
- High school students + Psychology -- Juvenile fiction
- Emotional problems of teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
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Label
Permanent record, Leslie Stella
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary form
fiction
Main title
Permanent record
Oclc number
823045921
Responsibility statement
Leslie Stella
Summary
Being yourself can be such a bad idea. For sixteen-year-old Badi Hessamizadeh, life is a series of humiliations. After withdrawing from public school under mysterious circumstances, Badi enters Magnificat Academy. To make things "easier, " his dad has even given him a new name: Bud Hess. Grappling with his Iranian-American identity, clinical depression, bullying, and a barely bottled rage, Bud is an outcast who copes by resorting to small revenges and covert acts of defiance, but the pressures of his home life, plummeting grades, and the unrequited affection of his new friend, Nikki, prime him for a more dangerous revolution. Strange letters to the editor begin to appear in Magnificat's newspaper, hinting that some tragedy will befall the school. Suspicion falls on Bud, and he and Nikki struggle to uncover the real culprit and clear Bud's name. Permanent Record explodes with dark humor, emotional depth, and a powerful look at the ways the bullied fight back
Target audience
adolescent
Incoming Resources
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