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In order to cope with his feelings of pain and confusion, sixteen-year-old Cal burns things, but the situation gets out of control after he meets Abby, a girl whose games will push him to the edge.
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Mental health, Young Adult Fiction, Fire, Pyromania, Teenagers, Realistic Fiction, Schools, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Fire, fiction, English literature, Feu, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Pyromanie, JUVENILE FICTION, GeneralShowing 2 featured editions. View all 12 editions?
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"Push."
Originally published: London : Scholastic, 1999.
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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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