six months in the life of the worlds most dangerous teenageryouth in revolt is the journals of nick twisp californias most precocious diarist whose ongoing struggles to make sense out of high school deal with his divorced parents and lose his virginity result in his transformation from an unassuming fourteenyearold to a modern youth in open revolt as his family splinters worlds collide and the police block all routes out of town nick must cope with economic deprivation homelessness the gulag of the public schools a competitive typea father murderous canines in triplicate and an inconvenient hair trigger on his erectile responseall while vying ardently for the affections of the beauteous sheeni saunders teenage goddess and ultimate intellectual goad