Stealing Kevin's Heart - Hardcover

M. Scott Carter

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ISBN 10: 1937054055 ISBN 13: 9781937054052

Publisher: The RoadRunner Press, 2011

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Their small town saw Alex Anderson and Kevin Rubenstein as the most unlikely of best friends, but that is just what the handsome athlete and the artistic Jewish brainiac are: inseparable buddies since childhood. Then Kevin dies in a motorcycle accident, and his parents blame Alex. And Alex blames himself. His grieving derails both his studies and his football, and he is sent away to a camp for troubled youths in the wilds of southeastern Oklahoma. Borderline suicidal, Alex finds his way back to sanity among the pine trees and clear lake waters thanks to a girl with a secret, a group of misfits, and the most unselfish gift a person can give another.

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Alex Anderson is sixteen, and he's not fighting vampires or zombies. No the demons Alex battles were unleashed by the death of his best friend in a freak motorcycle crash.That accident cost Alex the one friend who had known him since childhood, the only person who knew him not as the guy-with-seemingly-everything but just as Alex.You may not like Alex, at first. Once a star athlete, he's now a high school cautionary tale: moody, sad, angry, and borderline suicidal.But how Alex dares to holster the sarcasm and give up the name-calling — and the scarred beauty and ragtag misfits who help him get his life back on track — will leave you cheering by the story's end.

About the Author:

M. Scott Carter is an award-winning political reporter for The Journal Record, a photographer, and a magazine writer. Stealing Kevin s Heart is his debut young adult novel; the novel has been named a finalist in the young adult category in the Oklahoma Book Awards and ForeWord's Best Books of the Year. An Oklahoma native, Carter has been a contributing editor to Oklahoma Today magazine. His stories, essays, and photographs have also appeared in The Dallas Morning News, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Kansas City Star, The Tulsa World, and the Boston Globe. He lives with his wife, Karen, and their four children in Oklahoma City.

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