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    Going Underground

    By Susan Vaught

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    About this ebook

    Del is a good kid who's been caught in horrible circumstances. When we meet him, he is 17, trying to put his life together after an incident in his past that made him a social outcast - and a felon. As a result, he can't get into college; the only job he can get is digging graves; and when he finally meets a girl he might fall in love with, there's a whole sea of complications that threaten to bring the world crashing down around him again.

    But what has Del done? In flashbacks to Del's 14th year, we slowly learn the truth: his girlfriend texted him a revealing photo of herself, a teacher confiscated his phone, and soon the police were involved.

    Basing her story on real-life cases of teens being charged with sex crimes for texting explicit photos, Susan Vaught has created a moving portrait of an immensely likable young character caught up in a highly controversial legal scenario.


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateSep 13, 2011
    ISBN9781599907147
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    Going Underground
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    Susan Vaught

    SUSAN VAUGHT is the author of the highly acclaimed novels Trigger, My Big Fat Manifesto, Going Underground,as well as Oathbreaker, which she coauthored with her son, JB Redmond. She is also a practicing psychologist and lives with her family and many rescued animals in Kentucky. www.susanvaught.com

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      YA "contemporary issues" books don't always work very well for me, as they often feel forced, like someone just wanted to jump on the bandwagon of a popular, maybe controversial, issue. Going Underground didn't feel cheap or forced, however, and Del's narration and inner thoughts felt very real. He doesn't always sound like a 17-year old boy (or, at least, the 17 year old boys that I remember), but maybe that's because his circumstances have vastly changed his life and, in many ways, isolated him from most other people. He was an interesting narrator because you could see when things started to click in his head and when he decided to take control of his own life. I didn't expect to spend most of the last quarter of the book near tears, moved by Del's struggles, but I definitely found myself blinking back tears at several points. I also really enjoyed the role that music played over the course of the book. Several chapters are introduced with a "theme" song to set the tone. I'm a huge music nerd so I really appreciated the mini-soundtrack that the author provides.