Flash+Burnout

[[image:trumanhsro2012/FlashBurnoutCover.jpg width="159" height="256"]]Flash Burnout
Fifteen-year-old Blake has a girlfriend and a friend who’s a girl. One of them loves him, the other one needs him. When he snapped a picture of a street person for his photography homework, Blake never dreamed that the woman in the photo was his friend Marissa’s long-lost meth addicted mom. Blake’s participation in the ensuing drama opens up a world of trouble, both for him and for Marissa. He spends the next few months trying to reconcile the conflicting roles of Boyfriend and Friend. His experiences range from the comic (surviving his dad’s birth control talk) to the tragic (a harrowing after-hours visit to the morgue). In a tangle of life and death, love and loyalty, Blake will emerge with a more sharply defined snapshot of himself.

1. Why is Shannon mad in the beginning?Blake forgets to call her after dinner 2. Why does Garret take Marrissa and Blake to the morgue in the morning?To see if the dead body is Marrissas mother 3. On the day of Shannon’s piano recital, what happens to her?Her grandmother dies. 4.Why does Shannon decide she hates Blake?She finds out he slept with Marrissa 5. What happened to Marrissa's younger sister?She died of dehydration when she was 2 6.Where does Blake hang out after school?Ottomans 7.What sport does Marrissa's brother like?Hurtle