Nowhere, Mississippi
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Bristol Library - YA Fiction | YA FIC FRA | Available |
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382 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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Following the loss of his mother, fifteen-year-old Will Douglas is on a self-destructive path to nowhere, and as fate would have it, that’s exactly where he’s heading. Will’s father ships him off to a Southern Baptist boys home in the middle of Nowhere, Mississippi—a stretch of hostile backcountry, populated by duct-taped trailers and backward beliefs. Surrounded by teenage castoffs and criminals, Will must survive the next 90 days under the iron-fisted rule of Brother Bennett, “a man of firm discipline and faith.” However, as Will soon discovers, Brother Bennett’s modes of discipline are even more extreme than his beliefs. Licks and yuckings become a part of his everyday life, and after Brother Bennett dishes out the most brutal beating he has ever witnessed, Will decides he has to find a way out of Nowhere, for the sake of his own safety. But nothing in Nowhere is ever that simple, and instead of finding a way out, Will finds himself falling for a girl he meets at church. Being around her feels like being somewhere else, like being someone else. But seeing her means breaking Brother Bennett’s rules. All he has to do is keep his head down and make it through the rest of his sentence, but some things are simply worth the risk, even if it means staying in the last place he wants to be.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Frantal, J., & Munro, P. (2023). Nowhere, Mississippi . Firebrand Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Frantal, Jeff and Paul, Munro. 2023. Nowhere, Mississippi. Firebrand Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Frantal, Jeff and Paul, Munro. Nowhere, Mississippi Firebrand Publishing, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Frantal, Jeff,, and Paul Munro. Nowhere, Mississippi Firebrand Publishing, 2023.
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