Also Known as Rowan Pohi Author:Ralph Fletcher Bobby Steele and his pals, Marcus and Big Poobs, all public school kids from working class — backgrounds, are waiting for tenth grade to start when they come across an application form — for Whitestone Academy, a prestigious and posh private school. Just for giggles, they decide — that a nonexistent kid should apply?and so Rowan Pohi is born. (Name... more »d for their favorite
hangout, Pohi is IHOP spelled backwards.) Amazingly enough, the phantom Rowan is accepted
at Whitestone. Eager to escape the boredom of public school and his unhappiness at home,
Bobby shows up at Whitestone?s new student orientation, reinventing himself as Rowan. He
begins a suspenseful career as an impostor, hoping that the two worlds he?s living in will stay
separate forever. For a short, exhilarating time, they do. Ralph Fletcher?s signature light touch
in addressing serious issues in young people?s lives is evident in this story of identity lost and