War and Speech treasure hunters as well as the shooting

as well as the shooting of a young black teen

they must also wrestle with their demons--and face unimaginably difficult choices

where he studies Kabbalah

In those five years

Buddhist beliefs

War and Speech treasure hunters as well as the shootingMean Girls meets the debate team in this fish out of water story about a teen girl determined to sabotage the elitist speech team at her new school. Not everyone can be a winner and Sydney Williams knows this better than anyone. After her white collar criminal dad is sent to prison, Sydney fails almost all of her classes and moves into a dingy apartment with her mom, who can barely support them with her minimum wage job at the mall. A new school