Confessions of a Teenage Baboon

by Paul Zindel
Confessions of a Teenage Baboon  
published 1978 by BANTAM
first published 1977
binding Mass Market Paperback
isbn 0553118293  
pages 165
description On one of his mother’s nursing cases a "misfit" teenager meets a man who gives Chris some needed lessons in life.
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03-14-07



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Melissa
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01/27/08

I'm re-reading all my tattered Paul Zindel YA paperbacks, starting with this one. Man, they are dark. Paul Zindel was my favorite writer as a young tween. He wrote about weird, ugly, awkward, fucked-up, lonely working class kids in bad situations, with lots of gritty detail. This is the saddest of them all: a misfit teenage boy and his widowed live-in nurse mom move in with her patient, a dying old lady with dementia and a lewd streak and her adult son prone to sadistic mind games, violent alco...more
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11/21/07

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Read in January, 1984
Paul Zindel wrote a handful of young adult books in the late 60's and up to the early 80's that were constant companions during my teenage years. I still pick one up now and then. This one is tied for favorite with "Pardon Me, You're Stepping On My Eyeball".
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Ben
12/03/07

Really kind of brutal and totally my kind of young adult novel.
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avg rating (all editions): 3.71 (58 ratings)
avg rating (this edition): 3.78 (50 ratings)
number of reviews: 3






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Confessions of a Teenage Baboon (Library Binding)