Giles, Gail. Shattering glass.GILES, Gall. Shattering glass. The Millbrook Press, Roaring Brook Press. 224p. c2002. 0-7613-2601-4. $22.90. JS Charismatic Rob only arrived in town last year, but he has quickly become the most popular boy in his Texas high school. Thad, nicknamed "Young," is part of his clique (mathematics) clique - A maximal totally connected subgraph. Given a graph with nodes N, a clique C is a subset of N where every node in C is directly connected to every other node in C (i.e. C is totally connected), and C contains all such nodes (C is maximal). , along with athletic but dumb Coop and macho, handsome Bob, and they all willingly do what Rob says. When Rob decides to exercise his power over his classmates Classmates can refer to either:
Young narrates chronologically chron·o·log·i·cal also chron·o·log·ic adj. 1. Arranged in order of time of occurrence. 2. Relating to or in accordance with chronology. , but quotes from various people that preface each chapter, written from some later period in time, hint at the ending, heightening height·en v. height·ened, height·en·ing, height·ens v.tr. 1. To raise or increase the quantity or degree of; intensify. 2. To make high or higher; raise. v.intr. the suspense SUSPENSE. When a rent, profit a prendre, and the like, are, in consequence of the unity of possession of the rent, &c., of the land out of which they issue, not in esse for a time, they are said to be in suspense, tunc dormiunt, but they may be revived or awakened. Co, Litt. 313 a. . Like Alex Flinn's Breaking Point (reviewed in KLIATT in May 2002), this is a study of manipulation and its dangerous consequences, related by a co-conspirator who is also a victim. Disturbing and convincing, with witty dialogue and realistic characters, this is a strong first novel. |
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