{"product_id":"tales-of-the-madman-underground-isbn-9780142417027","title":"Tales of the Madman Underground","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"The Catcher in the Rye meets On the Road\"*-The Printz Honor book is a classic in the making!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e September 1973: The beginning of Karl Shoemaker's senior year in stifling Lightsburg, Ohio. For years, Karl's been part of \"the Madman Underground\"- kids forced to attend group therapy during school. Karl has decided that he is going to get out of the Madman Underground for good. He is going to act-and be-Normal. But Normal, of course, is relative. Karl has two after-school jobs, one dead father, one seriously unhinged drunk mother . . . and a huge attitude. Welcome to a gritty, uncensored rollercoaster ride, narrated by the singular Karl Shoemaker.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e *\u003ci\u003eThe Horn Book\u003c\/i\u003e\"Rarely will you read something so lovingly vulgar, so fiercely warmhearted, and so exuberantly expansive . . . the culmination comes off like a teenage \u003ci\u003eOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest\u003c\/i\u003e.\" -\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"His narration is so easy and engaging, so sweet and funny, so astonishingly truthful that teens will rip through these 500-plus pages and want more.\" -\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Darkly comic . . . as troubled, relevant, relatable and hilarious as J.D. Salinger.\" -\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003eThis is the acclaimed novelist \u003cb\u003eJohn Barnes\u003c\/b\u003e's first book for teenagers.","brand":"Speak","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302559404261,"sku":"NP9780142417027","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780142417027.jpg?v=1767737756","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/tales-of-the-madman-underground-isbn-9780142417027","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}