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Youth in Bondage is the second installment in C.D. Payne's wildly popular coming-of-age trilogy. Welcome to the world of Nick Twisp, California's most precocious diarist, whose ongoing struggles to make sense out of high school, deal with his divorced parents, and lose his virginity result in his transformation from an unassuming fourteen-year-old to a modern youth in open revolt. In Youth in Revolt, the first volume of Nick’s journals, we witnessed his transition from young literary hacker to rebel with a libidinous cause as he attempted to win teen goddess Sheeni Saunders. In Youth in Bondage, the second volume of Nick’s journals, we find him stuck …
Youth in Exile is the final installment in C.D. Payne's wildly popular coming-of-age trilogy. He didn't intend to burn half of Berkeley to the ground or create a media frenzy by faking his best friend's suicide or enroll in high school dressed as an elderly Italian woman. However, he did. Nick Twisp started out an honor student and ended up a fugitive. His ongoing struggles to make sense out of high school, deal with his divorced parents, and lose his virginity have resulted in his transformation from an unassuming, precocious fourteen year old to a modern youth in open revolt. In Youth in Exile, the third part of this series, Nick finds himself still …
Youth in Revolt is the first installment in C.D. Payne's wildly popular coming-of-age trilogy. A teenage anthem in the form of journals, we're presented the daily life of Nicholas Twisp, a fourteen-year-old cynic with a high intelligence and a desire for revolution. When Nick meets Sheeni Saunders, he gains the hormonal motivation and timeless definition for his rebellion. Determined to gain Sheeni's attention and romantic interest, Nick eventually will invent two alter-egos, François Dillinger and Carlotta Ulansky. François is Nick's French "bad boy" side, the personality which is not afraid to do anything in his attempt to impress the beautiful Sheeni. …





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