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Marking the teen-fiction debut of a frequent contributor to Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update, this groundbreaking, hilarious, and surprising novel takes a smart, satirical look at one hapless student's first year at an Ivy League school.
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- Title
- Freshman
- Author
- Michael Gerber
- Publisher
- Hyperion
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0786838507
- ISBN 13
- 9780786838509
Hart Fox may not have the pedigree to be a shoo-in at Stutts, a prestigious Ivy League school, but he has the grades and the résumé. And he does make it in—sort of. His acceptance is hijacked by Burlington Darling III, a wealthy alum who is so desperate to get his hapless son, Trip, into Stutts that he funds a new boathouse. Darling offers to get Hart a spot in the freshman class, and pay his way, if Hart will take all of Trip’s classes for him.
Despite this deal with the devil, Hart arrives on the Stutts campus jubilant. But what awaits him is a strange parallel universe of secret societies, inexplicable traditions, and class hierarchies. Soon, Hart finds himself aligned with the outcasts at an all-but-defunct school humor magazine, where a journalistic stunt catapults him into a mad, escalating guerilla war with the Darlings. With threats of death—and worse—expulsion looming over him, Hart must rely on his wit, and the aid of some very exceptional friends, to save him.
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Gr. 10-12. Hart Fox's grades and SAT scores prove that he is a worthy pick for prestigious Stutts University, but Michigan gubernatorial candidate (and Stutts alum) Burlington Darling III buys his son Trip's admission, pushing Hart out of his spot. To keep his inept son from ruining his campaign, Darling offers to pay Hart's tuition--provided he takes Trip's classes and keeps him out of trouble. Gerber, the author of the Barry Trotter parodies, delivers plenty of sophomoric humor (Hart is majoring in the Study of Things), while still managing to illuminate the truths of the freshman college experience, complete with footnotes. Hart's struggle to find his place in Stutts' elite world is aided by a vampire girlfriend, a wheelchair-bound friend with enough gadgets to make James Bond envious, and a job at a magazine. Even when the plot plummets into the absurd (the Comma Comma Apostrophe fraternity's murder plot against Hart), older teens will enjoy the perverse peek at post-high-school life. Cindy Dobrez
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