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    <![CDATA[Stoner &amp; Spaz]]>
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    <![CDATA[Colleen Minou is a hard-core stoner, a girl whose motto is, &quot;I'll get  high and do anything.&quot; Ben Bancroft is a movie-addicted preppie who suffers from  cerebral palsy, &quot;the resident spaz, invisible as the sign that says NO RUNNING,  the one no one pays attention to.&quot; Together, they form the most unlikely couple  since Dharma and Greg. He's Brooks Brothers, she's Salvation Army. He's never  even smoked a cigarette, she's got 20 different chemicals running through her  veins. But when these two lonely teens meet one night at Ben's favorite hang,  the Rialto (a classic film theatre that &quot;smells like butter from the  Paleozoic&quot;), sparks fly. At least for Ben they do. Maybe it's because Colleen's  the first girl to ever really notice him, to have the nerve to tease him about  his disability instead of pretend it's not there. For once, Ben is actually more  interested in his real life than a movie. Colleen takes him clubbing, lights his  first joint, even challenges him to direct his own movie. But when Ben, in turn,  dares her to stay straight, Colleen admits that, despite his devotion, she still  needs the drugs to &quot;smooth out the edges.&quot; Is Ben capable of convincing her  otherwise? If not, how will he ever be cured of his Colleen addiction?<p>  Author of the acclaimed <em>Brimstone  Journals</em>, Ron Koertge's wry depiction of this car wreck of a  relationship is sharply observed and wholly original. Teen readers will have a  tough time turning the last page of this oddly endearing, screwball love story.  (Ages 13 and older) <em>--Jennifer Hubert</em></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[   Benjamin is a teen with cerebral palsy; he is shy and extremely self-conscious until he meets Colleen at the Rialto Theater. She doesn’t seem to care about his handicap and she doesn’t seem to care about herself either because she has a drug problem. They strike up an unlikely friendship and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22200150">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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