Word: hanks
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...Hank_ deals with the problem of a kid where nobody is paying attention, who does what any thirteen year old would do with too much time on his hands. Fifty percent of the kids we deal with as educators are in his position, so Hank's difficulties are commonplace, and there's no one at fault...
...second novel is called _Jake_ . Jake, Hank’s stepbrother, is sent away to a school called St. Stevens. He makes some mistakes and he winds up in the arms of a school that he ultimately embraces. So _Jake_ changes focus from Hank, a boy with relatively superficial problems, to Jake, who has a whole community surrounding him. And that's the only thing that gives him a chance to survive real tragedies...
...Hank_ is coming out in January 2003; and the rest of the books will follow a year apart from each other...
...Hank based...
...Hank is imaginary. I conjured up a kid who has to be bright, a kid whose tolerance for bullshit is very very low, and whose susceptibility to influence by someone who is good is very high...