War and Speech

Author:   Don Zolidis
Publisher:   Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN:  

9780759556171


Pages:   448
Publication Date:   06 April 2021
Recommended Age:   From 13 to 17 years
Format:   Paperback
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Mean Girls meets the debate team in this fish-out-of-water story about a teen girl determined to sabotage the elitist speech team at her new school. Not everyone can be a winner... and Sydney Williams knows this better than anyone. After her white-collar-criminal dad is sent to prison, Sydney fails almost all of her classes and moves into a dingy apartment with her mom, who can barely support them with her minimum-wage job at the mall. A new school promises a fresh start. Except Eaganville isn't exactly like other high schools. It's ruled with an iron fist by a speech team that embodies the most extreme winner-takes-all philosophy. Sydney is befriended by a group of fellow misfits, each of whom has been personally victimized by the speech team. It turns out Sydney is the perfect plant to take down the speech team from within. With the help of her co-conspirators, Sydney throws herself into making Nationals in speech, where she will be poised to topple the corrupt regime. But what happens when Sydney realizes she actually has a shot at... winning? Sydney lost everything because of her dad's obsession with being on top. Winning at speech might just be her ticket out of a life of loserdom. Can she really walk away from that?

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Author:   Don Zolidis
Publisher:   Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Imprint:   Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 20.80cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780759556171


ISBN 10:   0759556172
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   06 April 2021
Recommended Age:   From 13 to 17 years
Audience:   Young adult ,  Teenage / Young adult
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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"""Outrageous and uproariously funny.""--Kirkus ""This book is the perfect combination of Bring It On and Mean Girls.""--School Library Connection"


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Don Zolidis grew up in Wisconsin, went to college in Minnesota, and is mostly known for being a really funny playwright. For the past five years, he's been the most-produced playwright in American schools. His more than one hundred published plays have been performed tens of thousands of times, and have appeared in sixty-four different countries. He currently splits his time between New York and Texas, and has two adorable boys who will someday read this book and have a lot of questions. He aspires to owning a dog. His first novel was The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig.

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