Bad Apple Author:Larry Boghad "Bad Apple is immediately and intensely haunting. Nicky, the 15-year-old narrator, might have been an average kid stumbling along the hellish avenues of adolescence were he not saddled with unusual baggage. Speaking in a credible but surprisingly poetic vernacular, Nicky inspires compassion despite what he does: this is the book's masterful ac... more »hievement. Nicky is a kid is extremis, but his plight is universal." - Boston Sunday Globe« less