num_pages: 320
description: A taut psychological thriller for teens Seventeen-year-old Jeff thought he would never again have to deal with his older brother, a convicted murderer serving a life sentence. But after six years, Troy’s sentence has been overturned on a technicality and he is released from prison. He returns to a family deeply divided about having him back home. Jeff can’t forget how his life was disrupted by his brother, how his family had to move to another state and start over. Still, his parents believe things will be different now. But Troy’s return makes a mess of Jeff ’s life – at home, at school, and with his girlfriend. When Jeff ’s rival on the soccer field turns up missing, Jeff suspects Troy is involved, and he sets out to prove it. But nothing could prepare Jeff for what happens as he gets closer to the truth.With unexpected flashes of humor, David Klass once again gives readers a gripping, multilayered novel about good and evil and the powerful bonds of family. Dark Angel is a 2006 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
language: English
title: Dark Angel
titlecomplete: Dark Angel
genres: Drama, Mystery, Teen, Adolescence, Young Adult, Thriller, Contemporary, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 665
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Jugendbuch, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Bronzener Lufti, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Gateway Readers Award
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)