Jenkins received the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship for night road. *-The asterisk highlights exceptional books. Jenkins is the award-winning author of Damage, Beating heart: A Ghost Story, and the Printz Honor Book Repossessed, and lives in Benbrook, Texas, with three sons, two cats, and two dogs. S-Recommended for senior high school students. Everybody deserves a vacation, right Especially if you have a pointless job like tormenting the. Particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers. J-Recommended for junior high school students. The lender will have to give you at least 14 days’ notice if it’s planning to repossess your car, and it will give you the chance to remedy the default. Quick, quirky and entertaining read, with some meaty ideas in it, too,īy the author of such noteworthy YA novels as Damage and Breaking Boxes. He knows he'llīe called back to Hell soon, and he longs for some kind of recognitionįunny and clever, in the end the demon's tale is aboutĪppreciating existence and trying to do the right thing. To have sex with (and they only kiss, in the end). School, and ends up falling in love with the girl he'd just wanted

Life better for Shaun's little brother, takes care of a bully at However, if the person does not pay back the loan according to the terms he agreed to, the company holds the right to take back the property purchased by the loan. When a person takes out a loan to purchase an object, he becomes the legal owner of it. Living Shaun's life, however, the demon starts to set other goals,Īnd he decides to leave his mark on this new world. Repossessions are legally allowed for in the language of contracts for secured loans. Instance (though not explicitly described) is a thrilling newĮxperience, and he's eager to try sex with a girl. The sights! The sensations! Masturbation, for At first, just experiencing the physical worldĮntrances the demon. Teenage boy named Shaun, who was about to lose his life to a speedingĬement mixer anyway. Spirit of a demon takes a little holiday: he moves into the body of a $16.89.) JS *įed up with endlessly overseeing the torment of souls in Hell, the

Repossessed by am jenkins