Tools
Stoner
& Spaz
by Ron Koertge
The greatest joy that 16-year-old Ben Bancroft has is settling into the Rialto
Theatre to watch Bride of Frankenstein again. It's his escape from cerebral
palsy and a life where his overprotective grandmother is his only parent. He
certainly never expected to run in to Colleen Minou, well-know stoner. And Grandma
isn't impressed when Colleen, dollup up in ripped tights with a neon miniskirt,
asks for a ride home and barfs down the side of the car--the outside, fortunately.
It's an unlikely friendship between two lonely teenagers from different part
of the social campground. Ben's an expensive RV with a flat tire, and Colleen
is like the ripped old Army tent we had when I was a kid, that turned anything
it touched permanently green if it rained, but they discover they can talk to
each other. And isn't that what friendship is about?
By Cindy Claypool of King County Library System
Last Updated: January 15, 2008