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    Dark Angel: A Novel

    By David Klass

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    A taut psychological thriller for teens

    Seventeen-year-old Jeff thought he would never again have to deal with his older brother, a convicted murderer serving a life sentence. But after six years, Troy's sentence has been overturned on a technicality and he is released from prison. He returns to a family deeply divided about having him back home. Jeff can't forget how his life was disrupted by his brother, how his family had to move to another state and start over. Still, his parents believe things will be different now. But Troy's return makes a mess of Jeff 's life – at home, at school, and with his girlfriend. When Jeff 's rival on the soccer field turns up missing, Jeff suspects Troy is involved, and he sets out to prove it. But nothing could prepare Jeff for what happens as he gets closer to the truth.

    With unexpected flashes of humor, David Klass once again gives readers a gripping, multilayered novel about good and evil and the powerful bonds of family.

    Dark Angel is a 2006 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateOct 11, 2005
    ISBN9781466806108
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    Dark Angel: A Novel
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    David Klass

    David Klass is the author of many young adult novels, including You Don't Know Me, Losers Take All, and Grandmaster. He is also a Hollywood screenwriter, having written more than twenty-five action screenplays, including Kiss the Girls, starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd, Walking Tall, starring The Rock, and Desperate Measures, starring Michael Keaton and Andy Garcia. Klass grew up in a family that loved literature and theater-his parents were both college professors and writers-but he was a reluctant reader, preferring sports to books. But he started loving the adventure stories his parents would bring home from the library-particularly Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson and Alexandre Dumas. After his sister twice won a story contest in Seventeen magazine, Klass decided he would win it too, and when he was a senior in high school, he did, publishing his first story, "Ringtoss," in the magazine. He studied at Yale University, where he won the Veech Award for Best Imaginative Writing. He taught English in Japan, and wrote his first novel, The Atami Dragons, about that experience. He now lives in New York with his wife and two children.

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    • 4/5
      Good story for boys.
    • 4/5
      Jeff is dreading having to expose his family secret. Troy, his brother, has just been released from jail on a technicality. He was convicted of murder and had served five in prison. Jeff doesn't trust Troy when he comes back into the family, despite their parents desire to give Troy another chance. This is a dark, heavy novel, but a very interesting read.
    • 3/5
      Gripping and dark, David Klass brings forth Dark Angel, asking readers, “What do you do with the secret that can disrupt your entire life, and what do you do when that secret has come back to you?” Jeff Hasting has moved to a quiet town in New Jersey to start his life again. He’s a popular 17-year-old, who has a pretty girlfriend, a spot on the soccer team, and a convicted murder for an older brother. In fact, Troy Hasting attacked and killed a young man in Buffalo, which caused his family to flee to their new life, while leaving behind all memories of Troy. When a legal technicality results in Troy’s freedom, Jeff and his family must adapt to their new life with Troy. Jeff looses both his girlfriend and his best friend, all the while wishing he could loose his brother. Meanwhile, Troy is apparently courting the correct side of the law, but when a local teen goes missing, Jeff and all the townspeople are forced to evaluate how much a person can change.Klass takes a much different approach to this work than some of his pervious novels. Gritty and urgent, the somber tone of the book envelops the reader throughout the course of the story. Jeff is a sympathetic character, and the reader has no problem accepting his conflicted emotions regarding his brother. Some of the insights seem a little “deus ex machina” and the ending seems to be a 180 turn in both Jeff’s behavior and motivation. However, as a work dealing with family members in prison, especially for young adults, this work is quite compelling.Read this if you like Monster by Walter Dean Myers, Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos, or Under the Wolf, Under the Dog by Adam Rapp.___________________________________________________Evil has taken up residence in the Hastings’ guest room, one floor beneath where 17-year-old Jeff sleeps. Jeff and his family attempted to avoid this evil, leaving behind their old life in Buffalo and suppressing the memories of their previous existence. However, that evil has caught up with the Hastings family. Troy Hastings, convicted of murder 5 years ago, arrived in Pineville, New Jersey to restart his life.With Troy back in town, Jeff re-discovers the survival skills he hoped to forget: the instinct to not look panicked; to avoid looking people in the eye; to avoid friends more than enemies. Jeff never wanted to be the soccer star, the prom king, or the valedictorian. His goal was to avoid the isolation, the stares, the whispers. Now, all Jeff can think about is the first time his classmates turned against him, and that whistling punch.It’s a funny description, but punches do whistle toward you. And then they stop with a CRACK.5 years ago, a punch whistled towards Jeff and broke his nose. One clean shot. CRACK.At the CRACK when the fist hit Jeff’s face, there was a flash of light. He was on the ground, on his back, and there was a roaring in his ears. The sickening, sweet taste and smell of blood was in his mouth, damp and thick and cottony.This time though, it’s not Jeff who gets punched, but Troy. A quick punch, a broken jaw, and Troy heads off, a convict trying to rebuild his life alone. Except it didn’t happen that way. It should have, but it didn’t.