Night Kites Author:M. E. Kerr Seventeen-year-old Erick Rudd suddenly finds that his life is turned upside down. His best friend Jack's girlfriend Nicki, who's beautiful and flirtatious and who always wants what she can't have, makes a play for him. To Nicki, Erick's a challenge. He falls hard for her, but loses his friendship with Jack and his own girlfriend Dill in the proc... more »ess. Complicating his guilt for betraying Jack and Dill is Erick's misery over learning that his beloved older brother Pete has AIDS, which is how he learns that Pete is gay. Through Erick's eyes the reader sees the effect of this shocking news on the Rudd family.
Author M.E.Kerr's characterizations are strong and true and her sensitive, compassionate treatment of AIDS, and how Erick and his family cope with it, make this story exceptional, and one of Kerr's most moving yet.« less