![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And open up to a friendship he never saw coming. Only, to find himself, he may just have to face the demons he refuses to see-the demons that are right in front of his face. That’s why he’s spending the summer with his dad’s family. And Danny’s convinced it’s his whiteness that sent his father back to Mexico. Before they find out he can’t speak Spanish, and before they realize his mom has blond hair and blue eyes, they’ve got him pegged. And growing up in San Diego that close to the border means everyone else knows exactly who he is before he even opens his mouth. Every time he gets up on the mound he loses it.īut at his private school, they don’t expect much else from him. Ninety-five mile an hour fastball, but the boy’s not even on a team. Even though he’s not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. Because whether they are contemporary teenagers finding themselves as social pariahs, or characters in a far-flung dystopia shut out of society, in the end, everyone just wants to belong someplace. Let’s have a look at ten of the best YA novels about outcasts. Especially if that group used to be close to you. You can feel just as awful being pushed aside by a small group. You don’t have to feel ignored by society to feel like an outcast. Or Charlotte Huang’s wonderful Going Geek, where we watch a teen become an outcast among her former friends, when it turns out she’s been lying to them all summer. ![]()
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