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Eight Seconds
Eight Seconds
Author: Jean Ferris
Each ride on the bucking bull is a lesson in pain. Each landing on the packed dirt is a jarring reminder of reality. Rodeo camp is a tough way to spend a summer, but John is having the time of his life. No clingy girlfriends, no nagging moms, no annoying sisters. Just him and the guys and the biggest bulls he's ever seen. All he has to do is...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780152023676
ISBN-10: 0152023674
Publication Date: 10/1/2000
Pages: 192
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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John a young man, still in high school feels surrounded by females what with his mother, his girlfriend, and his five sisters.

Getting away for a week at a rodeo prep camp sounds great and there he meets and befriends Kit. a handsome self assured guy, who goes to college with John's older sister. Kit is a natural bull rider and the two quickly strike up a friendship.

When he returns home and his sister tells John that Kit is openly gay on campus, John's world is rocked.

Soon he's questioning many things that he'd previously taken for granted.

This book is unusual and covers ground that not a lot of coming out stories cover from a perspective thats uncommon. But then, my heros have always been cowboys. I genuinely liked most all of the characters in this story and read the book pretty much in one sitting. By the end I wanted more. But even though you don't always get what you want in this book you get what you need.

Well worth the time. Now that I'm done, I've got several new friends that I'm gonna miss.


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