num_pages: 320
description: Alternately heartbreaking and starkly humorous, this teenager's brutal story of escape and desire for redemption is masterfully told by award-winning writer and film director Adam Rapp.I'm what they call a Gray Grouper. The Red Groupers are the junkies and the Blue Groupers are the suicide kids.Steve Nugent is in a facility called Burnstone Grove. It's a place for kids who are addicts, like Shannon Lynch, who can stick $1.87 in change up his nose, or for kids who have tried to commit suicide, like Silent Starla, whom Steve is getting a crush on. But Steve doesn't really fit in either group. He used to go to a gifted school. So why is he being held at Burnstone Grove? Keeping a journal, in which he recalls his confused and violent past, Steve is left to figure out who he is by examining who he was.
language: English
title: Under the Wolf, Under the Dog
titlecomplete: Under the Wolf, Under the Dog
characters: Steve Nugent
genres: Realistic Fiction, Death, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Young Adult, Teen, Fiction, Disability, Contemporary, Survival
ratings_count: 631
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Schneider Family Book Award
category: Teen Book
publisher: Candlewick Press