Setting for Shattering Glass

The setting for Shattering Glass by Gail Giles is B'Vale High School. The book was published in 2002 which makes me want to believe the time period is present day and not in the future or back in the day. A real-life connection I can make to this novel is that I am in high school and know what that life is like. I see what happens to kids that get picked on for no reason other than they aren't popular.

A good line of imagey in the book is, "It was retro-cool in our part of Texas to wear loafers or Top-Sider boat shoes without socks, but Simon wore crepe-soled black lace-up wingtips" (Giles 1). This line describes what the average student in their part of Texas looks like.

Shattering Glass by Gail Giles

I have just started the book Shattering Glass by Gail. It received a 3.85/5 rating on Goodreads. This book is about a husky nerd named Simon Glass who everyone hates. Four popular friends try to improve Simon's image by moving him up in the social ranks. But what they don't know is that Simon has a cruel, demented side to him. This is a paraphrase of the back of the book.

My predictions for this is that it will be a good book. I'm excited to read it based on the reviews it has gotten. I don't have any real-life connections to this book so far so it is hard to analyze it in depth.