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Also known as Rowan Pohi
Ralph J. Fletcher

Also known as Rowan Pohi

Clarion (Nov 2011)
9780547572086
| Hardcover
199 pages
LC Classification PZ7.F632115 .Als 2011
LC Control No. 2011009641

Genre

  • General Fiction
  • Teens
  • Young Adult

Subject

  • Brothers - Fiction
  • Family Problems - Fiction
  • High Schools - Fiction
  • Identity - Fiction
  • Schools - Fiction
  • Social Classes - Fiction

Plot

Will the real Rowan Pohi please stand? To dispel boredom while waiting for tenth grade to begin, Bobby and his friends create an imaginary kid named Rowan Pohi (that's IHOP backwards) and apply to the prestigious Whitestone Prep in Rowan's name. When, surprisingly, Rowan's application is accepted, Bobby impulsively reinvents himself as Rowan and embarks on an edgy life of deception in the rarefied world of Whitestone. Told with Ralph Fletcher's trademark blend of humor and depth, the story of Rowan's rise and fall is a funny, poignant, and suspenseful riff on the adolescent search for identity.