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...feel after watching your first Brat Pack movie? I was too young to have seen it in the theaters, but I saw The Breakfast Club on VHS when I was in eighth grade, and it just blew my mind. I couldn't believe that there was a movie about the very things that I was concerned with at that moment in my life...
Until someone comes up with a more scientific ranking system, though, let's drink to Boston's A+ grade...
...until she kicked him out of the house at age 14. Green bounced around various family members' homes for the next few years. Desperate for attention, he did win a few friends in high school by being the class clown. After dropping out of high school in the 10th grade, however, trouble followed him wherever he went. Smoking cigarettes, drinking booze, and walking around with marijuana are fairly common activities for teenagers, but Green managed to get caught, arrested, and convicted for each of those things by the time...
...first time I came across Salinger, I swore in my head for a week. My ninth-grade English teacher assigned us to write fairy tales in Holden’s voice, and she was taken aback by my willingness, sweet little 15-year-old and all, to adopt Holden’s goddam style right down to the goddam word...
Towards the end of seventh grade he picked up a shotput—a 16-pound ball that is thrown from the neck—for the first time...