Amazon Summary: "Every kid in this group wants to fly. Every kid in this group has too much ballast. Mr. Nak's Angry Management group is a place for misfits. A place for stories. And, man, does this crew have stories. There's Angus Bethune and Sarah Byrnes, who can hide from everyone but each other. Together, they will embark on a road trip full of haunting endings and glimmering beginnings. And Montana West, who doesn't step down from a challenge. Not even when the challenge comes from her adoptive dad, who's leading the school board to censor the article she wrote for the school paper. And straightlaced Matt Miller, who had never been friends with outspoken genius Marcus James. Until one tragic week—a week they'd do anything to change—brings them closer than Matt could have ever imagined."
Hmmm... I didn't quite get what I was expecting from this book. I thought it would follow the general format of Mr. Nak's group from Crutcher's earlier book (I can't think of which one it was). It ended up being more separate stories than anything else. The most powerful one, I think, is the last one about Marcus James and Matt Miller. It caught me off guard. Matt Miller also ended up scoring pretty high on my list of all-time-favorite characters. I think I would have liked the stories better if they were separated into individual books and fleshed out a bit. Though, I suppose you couldn't really do that for the Angus and Sarah one since it's pretty much just an expansion on Sarah's story... I still really liked the book but I think it lacks a little of the power it would hold if each story were separate and fleshed out a bit.
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