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You could win four tickets to see the Indiana Repertory Theatre’s season-opening production of "Holes," including the pre-show VIP party with live music and a post-show celebration.
In honor of the play, which takes the award-winning young adult novel to the stage, all you have to do is enter below and name your favorite teen character from the world of books. Your pick won’t help you win (that’s by random draw), but might inspire some outside reading.
Good luck.
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I also like Stanley Yelnats, the main character in Holes, and not just because his name is spelled the same in either direction.
However, asking me my favorite teen character from the world of books is like asking me my favorite book: impossible to answer! So...I'm just going to name the one I've been thinking about this morning:
15-year-old Darren is the narrator of The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To, by D.C. Pierson (Vintage Contemporaries 2010.)
I love him because he says things like this:
"My mom used to give me warm milk when I was a kid and couldn't sleep. I slept easier nights afterwards just wanting to avoid drinking warm milk, which is the strangest thing your mouth can experience, being used to cold milk in cereal and in a glass beside every meal growing up. It's like seeing your teacher outside of school. It's them, but they're all wrong and out of context." (p.59)
Hope Baugh
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He was a typical postwar teenager who had a penchant for solving problems and mysteries while maintaining a laid back attitude.