“We just choose a club that’s so boring, nobody in their right mind would ever in a million years join it. We could call it Geography Club!”Just then, someone knocked at the door to our classroom.“Oops,” Terese said, her eyes widening in mock horror. “Too loud.”We all stifled our smiles best as we could (and Kevin pulled away from me at last), and Min went to answer the door.“Yeah?” she said.It was a large black girl in a bright orange sweater with a matching orange headband in her hair. She was a junior and, a member of the orchestra which put her somewhere between the Computer Geeks and the Lefty Radicals in terms of popularity (closer to the Computer Geeks).“Is this the Geography Club?” she said.“Yeah,” said Min. “Sorry if we were a little loud.”“It’s not that,” said the girl.“Then what?”“Well, I wanted to know how I could go about joining.”Russel Middlebrook thought that he was the only gay guy at Goodkind High School. Boy was he ever wrong. When he discovers that many of his friends are just like him, Russel decides that they have to find a way of hanging out together. Maybe a school club would be good. Something boring like the Geography Club that no one would ever suspect. This “secret” group works out well until the great divide over allowing the school scapegoat into the group. He will take the fall for being outed and get the rest of the Geography Club off the hook. Russel has to make some tough decisions like choosing between old friends and a new boyfriend or what feels right and what makes him happy. There is still a lot of growing up that Russel needs to do. He discovers that peer pressure can either feed bullying and cruelty or help stop it in its tracks. It is the decision that Russel has to make for himself.
Recommended for 14+
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