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=//**I'm Exploding Now by Sid Hite**//=

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__**About**__
This book by Sid Hite is written it is someone's journal. It follows the life of Max Whooten and his family in East New York during his summer break he writes 58 journal entries that sum up his whole summer from day to day days of his summer. Max has a dad that is an actor, a mom that = = works, an aunt that lives in Woodstock and a sister Corey. Max is 16 and Corey is 15 years old.

**__Characters__**
Max Whooten - The main character that used to be the popular kid and now has only three friends. During his summer he tries to get more friends, summer plans and a girlfriend.

Corey Whooten - Max's little sister and popular girl. Corey has a lot of friends and during her summer just wants to keep her boyfriend. = =

Zini Cabrini - A girl Max met while in Woodstock with his Aunt Ginny. They become a couple during Max's one month stay at Woodstock.

Aunt Ginny - Max's Aunt that owns a house in Woodstock. She invites Max to stay with her for a couple weeks in Woodstock.

Athena Depree - Corey's best friend and a popular rich girl. Max says she's not snobby like rich people usually are.

Trevor - Max's best friend along with Leila Kazilonif. He had a nervous breakdown during his school year and had to go to a psychiatrist and had to be put on pills.

Leila Kazilonif - Max's best friend along with Trevor. Max's girlfriend Zini breaks up with Max because she thinks he has a crush on Leila from his journal entries.

Allen August - An older man Max met in Woodstock that is a local poet. = = = =

__Summary__
The book starts out eight days after summer is over, Max realizes he has no plans at all for his summer. Then his computer crashes causing him to use his sister Corey's for his emails. He visits his best friend Trevor with his other best friend Leila. His friend Trevor has to stay inside because he had a nervous breakdown and can't be too active while on his medications. Max then gets invited to Athena's party with Corey. While there, Max gets upset and beats up Athena's cousin and ran off. Corey get's really upset at Max and says she'll never talk to him. Max then goes to Woodstock with his Aunt Ginny to live for a month or two. Max ends up trying to take karate lessons but doesn't because he's distracted by girls. He met a poet named Allen who invited him to a poet reading, while at the poet reading he spots a cute girl. After the show he talks to her and she says she noticed him and they begin to date. Her name is Zini Cabrini and she breaks up with Max two weeks before school. She says he's in love with Leila and that she wants to keep options open for school. Max goes back to his parents house and gets Corey to forgive him. Max calles Zini and she says that she = = = = might consider taking him back and his coming to New York City. Max waits at the bus station nine minutes until Zini's train arrives.

__Relevance to Social Issues__
This book doesn't relate to many social issues but it does to one. Max's best friend Trevor had a nervous breakdown and forced to abandon his friends and be put on medications. Nervous breakdowns in teenagers are caused from stressful problems at home, mostly related to money, family or jobs if they have one.I cited my information from __http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2010/06/01/help-im-having-a-nervous-breakdown/.__ For more information go to __http://www.articlesbase.com/diseases-and-conditions-articles/guide-to-teenage-nervous-breakdown-542397.html__

__Dramatization of the Book__
If I were to make //I'm Exploding Now// into a movie I would choose Daniel Radcliffe because he is a good actor that can portray a 17 year old. I would pick Rachel McAdams for Zinny because in Sherlock Holmes she could portray the role of a girl that can act masculine when needed.For Corey I would pick Dakota Fanning though because she is a young girl that is gifted at acting. Lastly i would pick Sigourney Weaver for Aunt Ginny. == == == ==

__Other Works by Sid Hite__
//The King of Slippery Falls// = = //A Hole in the World// //Stick and Whittle// //My name is Americ// = = //a: Journal of Rufus, Witness to the Battle of Fredricksburg// //Cecil and Space// //Those Darn Dithers// //The Distance of Hope// //An Even Hope// //Answer my Prayer//

__About the Author__
Sid Hite was born in Bowling Green, Virginia and currently lives in New York, New York. He grew up in a family of seven and traveled to more = = than 20 countries in High School. He worked many jobs during his teen years and then started writing. That's when he decided, as a teenager, he wanted to be a fiction writer.Sid was named a Publisher's Weekly “Flying Start” for his first novel, //Dither Farm//. He won the Smithsonian Institute Notable Book for Children in 2001 for his book //A Hole In The World//. He also won the awards New York Public Library Best Book for the Teen Age Smithsonian's Notable Books for Children and White Award Nominee in 2000 for his book //Stick & Whittle//.

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__About Stokley Onuba__
I'm Stokley Onuba, born December 23rd in Houston, Texas. I prefer mystery novels but I also like books like this one that act as if it was a journal. I currently live in Gahanna, Ohio. I went to McVay Elementary School for elementary school, Gahanna Middle School East for middle school and am currently attending Gahanna Lincoln High School for high school. I'm in the 9th grade and have Language Arts in Montgomery. ==