An edition of Kerosene (1999)

Kerosene

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Kerosene
Chris Wooding
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An edition of Kerosene (1999)

Kerosene

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Cal, a high schooler who copes with the pain of his life by lighting matches and watching them burn, goes on to much bigger things when he learns that his friend Joel is in trouble with drug dealers, and he becomes the target of a cruel prank.

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Publisher
Push/Scholastic
Language
English
Pages
195

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Cover of: Kerosene
Kerosene
2003, Scholastic
in English
Cover of: Kerosene
Kerosene
2002, Scholastic
in English
Cover of: Kerosene
Kerosene
1999, Push/Scholastic
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]

The Physical Object

Pagination
195 p. ;
Number of pages
195

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22983488M
ISBN 10
043909013X
Library Thing
165856
Goodreads
268880

Work Description

From GoodReads by Jinx:The:Poet—“ Kerosene is the dark story of a young man, named Cal, by day a quiet social outcast, by night... a frustrated, tormented pyromaniac, burning to feel control over something, anything, in his life and desperate to express himself. It begins as a habit, his playing with fire, but his desire to burn things soon gets out of hand as time goes on, especially when a girl he likes begins playing mind games with him and his only friend, Joel, begins drifting away. It is a story, with devastating consequences of how dark secrets can suddenly become destructive, however the ending was a bit hurried and inconsequential. Although the writing itself could at time be clunky, it was a very interesting and compelling read. I found Cal to be a highly relatable character, especially if one has been in his shoes, as a silent outsider, a lone misfit or a youth tormented with dark and destructive urges ignited from inner rage and powerlessness of teenage life. ”

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