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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Mass Market Paperback, 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 0064470350
Release Date: Jan 9, 1997
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | In Brief
"Erick is comfortable with his senior crowd, delighted with his girl Dill and his best friend Jack. But Jack falls for Nikki, an insecure fashion-plate who wants only what she can't have. Erick tries to steer Jack clear of such a troublemaker, so Nikki sets her sights on him next. Complicating his guilt for betraying Jack and Dill by seeing Nikki is Erick's misery over learning that his beloved older brother Pete has AIDS. Thus the horrified family finds out about Pete's imminent death at the same time they find out about his life style. . . . Grade seven and up." (SLJ)
| | | | From The Publisher
Night kites are different. They don't think about the dark. They go up alone, on their own, and they're not afraid to be different.
Erick knows the family code: Family is first. Toe the line. Fit in. At Seaville High his life is tame, predictable—hanging out with his girlfriend, Dill, and his pal Jack. Then Erick falls in love with Nicki Marr. Nicki's sort of scary. She's 17 going on 25. Every word she says, every move she makes, seems seductive-and aimed right at Erick. But she's Jack's girl... isn't she? Meeting Nicki teaches Erick about not fitting in. Then Erick learns that Pete, his seemingly perfect big brother, doesn't fit in either. Nicki and Pete aren't afraid to be different, aren't afraid to love-but the price they pay is high. Erick longs for that freedom but is caught between his longing and the safe, secure world of his family. Seventeen-year-old Erick Rudd's family faces tragedy when his older brother, Pete, is diagnosed as having AIDS.
Best of the Best Books (YA) 1966–1988 (ALA)
1987 Recommended Books for Reluctant Young Adult Readers (ALA)
Best of the '80s (BL)
1991 California Young Reader Award
| | | | Annotation
Seventeen-year-old Erick's comfortable and well-ordered life begins to fall apart when he is forced to keep two secrets: the identity of his new girlfriend and the nature of his brother's debilitating disease.
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AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-- Rachel, September 24, 2001
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
Two people pay a high price for not fitting in
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