Winger

Smith, A. (2013) Winger. NY: Simon & Schuster. Ryan Dean West attends Pine Mountain Academy a rich boarding school. Ryan Dean is a smart, skinny kid going through the beginning stages of puberty and wanting to change his image this school year from not being a loser. He is a junior and two years younger than everyone else. He has been summoned to sleep in the Opportunity Hall because he stole a teacher’s phone and hacked into it. His rooming situation gets interesting when the stereotypical dumb jock, Chas Becker becomes his roommate. He worries that he may be plummeted by Chas since he is in the lower social status ladder. He documents his emotional feelings and sexual desires through picture and graphs giving the reader a clear image of his roller coaster ride at Pine Mountain Academy. He is in love with his best friend Annie who treats him like a baby. His best friend Joey is harassed or bullied by the football players and ends up being killed. At the end he is comforted and tries to cope with the death of his friend. Ryan’s character is completely described as a teenage horn dog. Ryan completely demonstrates the raging hormones in the way he thinks about girls and his hot teachers and coping with teenage issues. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux35quSH4lk