Breaking Point

Name: Breaking Point
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Alex Flinn
ISBN: 9780807208137

Author: Alex Flinn

Narrator: Jason Harris

Unabridged: 5 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listening Library

Published: 05/14/2002

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Boys & Men, Social Themes, Law & Crime

Synopsis

Paul is new to Gate, a school whose rich students make life miserable for anyone not like them. And Paul is definitely not like them. Then, one day something incredible happens. Charlie Good, a star student and athlete, invites Paul to join his elite inner circle. All Charlie wants is a few things in return-- small things that Paul does willingly. And then, one day, Charlie wants something big--really big.

Now Paul has to decide how far he'll go to be one of the gang. A powerful follow-up to Alex Flinn's Spring 2001 debut novel, Breathing Underwater.

About The Author

Alex Flinn studied theater, opera, and law before writing her first novel, Breathing Underwater, for which she was a Publishers Weekly "Flying Starts" featured author in June 2001. Ms. Flinn lives in Miami with her husband, Gene, daughters, Katie and Meredith, and her dog, cat, and five turtles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marita on December 30, 2012

This is not a nice tale, but it is certainly a cautionary one that I think would be good for teens to read: a lesson about trust, manipulation, and right and wrong. It follows the character of Paul who isn't doing too well in his new wealthy high school. He's a bully's dream: he's not wealthy (he's......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on March 29, 2009

This book was as intriguing as it was disturbing. It's about a teenager who moves to a new school and doesn't have any friends, and who eventually gets bullied and pressured into joining a rich kid gang. But, there's a price as well. The plot of this book sincerely touched me towards the end, but it......more

Goodreads review by Chandni on February 28, 2021

I get that around this time there were a lot of novels about school shootings and scary loners who were trying to hurt their schoolmates, but this seems like a superficial, really poor caricature of those kinds of novels. Even though there isn't a school shooting, this book's plot is so ridiculous a......more