This is a terrible book. It has swearing, every word, you can imagine. It TEACHES kids HOW TO BULLY other kids, and get away with it, you might call it a manual. It is # 3 out of 100 most banned or challenged books. It is defamatory towards Catholism. It shows priests who are teachers who endorse the bullying, and stand by and watch (not a message we need kids to read about). It has graphic sexual scenes, that would make girls under age 19 feel uncomfortable. It describes purchasing Playboy by child "who just turned 14" but bought the Playboy when he was younger. It is not a book for children, period. The movie is rated R, and has a different ending (haven't seen it yet.) This book would be NC 17, which is worse than R, but not quite X rated. It is a book that should be read by an adult FIRST, and THEN determine if the child should read it. It glorifies smoking, and manipulation of adults by teens. The author attended Catholic schools, and clearly had a desire to create false and misleading stories about the Catholic schools. They describe a priest hitting a studen across the face with a pointer. This is unncessary literature for any one.