2 books by Jake Coburn
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Overview: Jake Coburn was born in New York City in 1978. He grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and attended several different prep schools. In 2000, he graduated from Brown University magna cum laude with a degree in Modern Culture and Media.
Jake’s first novel, Prep (Dutton, 2003), is based on his teenage years, where he witnessed New York’s privileged offspring form some of the city’s most vicious street gangs. Prep was named an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults and a Junior Library Guild selection, and is currently being made into a movie by Paramount-MTV Films and Benderspink.
Jake’s second novel, LoveSick (Dutton, Sept. 2005), also named an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults, is based on his college years and his recovery from alcohol and drug addiction. Jake writes, “When I started LoveSick, I wanted to write a love story about two teenagers trying to survive addiction, loneliness, and their freshman year of college.”
Genre: Romance, Young Adult
LoveSick
Ted’s drunk-driving accident has ruined his life. it cost him his basketball scholarship, ended his plans for college, and forced him into AA. But just when Ted has resigned himself to his new life, Michael appears. The wealthy father of a bulimic Manhattan rich girl has a tempting proposition. He has agreed to pay for Ted’s college tuition, but there’s one catch. Ted has to secretly keep tabs on his benefactor’s daughter, Erica. A seemingly simple task, with only one minor problem: Ted never expected to fall in love.
Prep
Nick and his friends have everything: expensive clothes, beautiful apartments, rich friends. The island of Manhattan is at their feet. But underneath this picture-perfect world of private schools and private parties lies a gang world filled with drinking, drugs, casual sex, and graffiti. And Nick wants out. He’s had enough of the life, and he’s in love with his best friend, Kris, even though she’s oblivious to his feelings. When Kris’s younger brother becomes a gang target, Nick thinks he can help, even if it means putting his own life at risk.
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