01943cam a2200349 4500 759798230 TxAuBib 20210722120000.0 200821s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020038100 9781524720247 hbk. $17.99 1524720240 hbk. $17.99 (OCoLC)1192303768 DLC eng rda DLC BDX YDX ORX OCLCO OCLCF XYZ OCO GK8 OCLCO RB0 CLE ILC OCLCO TxGR TxAuBib Zentner, Jeff, author. In the wild light [Book] / Jeff Zentner. First edition. New York : Crown, [2021] 421 pages ; 22 cm. Attending an elite prep school in Connecticut on a scholarship with his best friend (and secret love) science genius Delaney Doyle, sixteen-year-old Cash Pruitt, from a small town in East Tennessee, struggles with emotional pain and loss until his English teacher suggests writing poetry. Cash lost his mother to an opioid addiction and his Papaw is dying slowly from emphysema. Dodging drug dealers and watching out for his best friend (and person of his heart), Delaney, is second nature. When Delaney makes a scientific discovery that gets them both full rides at an elite prep school in Connecticut, Cash has to make a choice. Will he gp with her to Connecticut, or stay in Tennessee with the grandparents who saved him? -- adapted from jacket. Ages 14 & up. Crown Books for Young Readers. Grades 10-12. Crown Books for Young Readers. 20210722. Best friends Fiction. Grief Fiction. Loss (Psychology) Fiction. Boarding schools Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Schools Fiction. RV8