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This one was a bit of a slow burn at the start but I'm glad I stuck with it. The author starts by giving us an aloof teenage boy who sleeps through class and shuns any social contact. Over the course of the book she fills in the details of his life and the that of the kids around him as events unfold that force him to break his self-imposed isolation.

The vocab was quite simple although there was one or two philosophical conversations that were a little harder to follow. Overall good vocab and

The main character is a high school student who shies away from interacting with others, and purposefully pushes away anyone who tries to get close to him. As the novel progresses we find out why!

This book is great for language learning because it uses lots of everyday language (school related, work related, vocabulary related to emotions, etc). The author has a poetic way of using simple words and metaphors to describe the main character's feelings.

The book really picks up in the second ha