Ryan Dean "Winger" goes to school at Pine Mountain. He is younger than all the students in his grade. He is also artistic and draws cartoons. He is in love with his best friend Annie. He is sent to O-Hall to live for this year with all the students that are problem makers. He is rooming with Chas. On the rugby team he befriends Joey. Joey is gay and in the end he is killed by two other classmates that have problems with him being gay.
I was so shocked with the ending and wished that Winger hadn't been so scared that night and had gone looking for the noise he heard and that maybe Joey would have still been alive. This book really makes me think of Looking for Alaska and maybe that would be a book that could be read after this and then the two compared with development of the characters, etc.
I was thinking about Kohlberg's conventional development in this book about how Winger knows the difference between right and wrong. He stands up for Joey when he is jumped because of being gay. This is also a great example of contemporary realistic fiction. This story could really happen.
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