Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding school, fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West grapples with living in the dorm for troublemakers, falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and playing wing on the Varsity rugby team with some of his frightening new dorm-mates.

Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2013. "A Junior Library Guild selection."--Back cover. Includes an excerpt of the author's, 100 sideways miles.