Stetson

by S.L. Rottman

Book Overview

Stetson has a dream. He's been rebuilding an old Honda Civic working at a salvage yard, and designing T-shirts to help pay for food and parts. As long as Stet avoids his abusive, alcoholic father, he considers himself lucky. His car, his art, and a high school diploma are his tickets out of their factory town. Then his father brings home Kayla-a younger sister Stet never knew he had. His mother had been pregnant when she left, but told no one; now...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670035424
• ISBN13: 9780670035427
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Viking Children's Books
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

KCS Stetson book reveiw Look! Mrs Watanabe!!!!

Stetson S.L. Rottman The Penguin Group 2002 222pp $16.99 ISBN 0-670-3542-4 "The falcon was totaled. The front end had rammed into a large tree, and the whole left side had collapsed. You couldn't see any of the Falcon's eye's or beak. The left front wheel stuck out at a cock eye angel. In the windshield there were two stars, the bigger one on the driver's side. Both of then were blood stained." Stetson or Stet as he likes to be called, is 17 year old delinquent living a small hick town that he wants desperately to leave. But first he needs to graduate, and rebuild his car, that's why he got a job at the scrap yard working on cars, and in addition does dares for money. Then one day he goes to far and gets suspended but when comes home from his after school job, he's suprised to find that his alcoholic father picked up his long lost sister. She was born a little after their mom left the house, now she's dead and Kayla has to stay with Stet and his father in a beat up old trailer. I really loved this book! It's realistic fiction about one week in the lives of two teenagers. I love the way the author describes the events and the people, because the whole story is old from the point of view of Stet who has to be the responsible one in the family and take care of both his dad and kayla. It also has teaches moral lessons about the dangers of alcohol and peer presure. Even thought it's not from a christain perspective (they swear sometimes) I still think it was a pretty good book. I rate this 4.5/5 stars.

great book...

You have a drunk dad and you work a lot you have this car you really like. One day after work you find this girl in your house turns out she is your sister and your mom died. this is what happened to Stetson (the main character) in this book. This was a great book it had a little bit of everything drama, action, hate, love, and cars. I liked that the author put the car in this book. Stetson really likes that car and I think it symbolizes that one thing you cherish. Something I didn't like was that once or twice the author emphasizes some things a little too much. I would recommend this book the author writes i very well. Overall this was a great book this is only my opinion you maybe agree or disagree but in my case I thought it was a great book...

Fabulous

When I started reading this book I put it down but near the end I could not stop reading. On the positive side it had a great story and awesome ending. Also the characters were not just descriptions they were like real people in my mind they were that good. On the negative side some parts were over dramatized and some parts were to slow. For another thing it took so long for one day to go by in the book I thought it took place over a month.

Stetson

I thought that this book was actually more interesting then what the cover actually said. With the book cover it didn't look very good but after I got into it was one of the best books I have ever read in my life. It starts out with Stetson in school and doing stuff he shouldn't do to get kicked out of school and then he goes to his daily job to get car parts for his 1980 Honda civic that he has been fixing up for a long time. His dad is one of the biggest drunks you will ever see. He works at the mill, where everybody works in that small town. All his old friends had dropped out and started to work. He goes home to see that there is a strange girl on the couch and he finds out that his mom was pregnant before she left him with his dad. The girls name is Kayla and she tells Stetson that their mom had died. It's a very exciting book and I would highly recommend this book if you like working on cars and young adult books.