Rule of the bone...

The Main character... is Crazy.. In the book they call him Chappie. He lives with his mother and step dad in a house that doesnt have alot of fancy things. Chappie is always skipping school,smokes alot of weed, and is always looking for things in his house to steal and sell for money to fund his drug habit.. After chappie leaves his house and becomes a run away( even though he recalls that his parents kicked him out) he stays at his friends house who lives with bikers.. Chappie comes up with this crazy idea that maybe if he can get really nice presents fro his parents that they will take him back and forget about what he did... he goes on this really long ramble on how he will march up to the house with all his stuff and a bag full of presents and knock on the door and once his moms come to the door he will say Merry Christmas... and give him to them and then his step dad will let him back in the house.. Then as a family they will all go drink eggnog and watch reruns of the cosby show...I think he wants that loving home.. that place where he can go and fee safe and loved and happy. He doesnt want to be or act the way he does he wants his mom to love him and care about him. But he doesnt know how to change, he has been living like this since his dad left when he was younger. As he has this thought about the Christmas fanstasy I really think he wants a normal family, that he doesnt want to be this thing that he has turned in to.

      At a first glance this book reminds me of Catcher In The Rye. The same kind of teen problems that leads to them running away. So far I like the book, I think its pretty cool how he write like a teenager.

Most parents dont even know why kids run.. why they pack up a bag and disappear... doing so research(by research I mean about five minutes looking at different internet sources trying to find a connection, so its not really researching)

The lose of a loved one(mom or dad) so the step-mom or step-dad takes over.

Under-16 runaway rates
7% in two-parent families
14% in lone-parent families
22% in stepfamilies
The facts tell an impersonal tale. It's estimated that more than 1.5 million U.S. youth run away or are sent away from home yearly, 68% are between the ages of 15-17, 35% had run away before. Every year approximately 5000 runaways and homeless youth die from assault, illness, and suicide.   (http://www2.lv.psu.edu/jkl1/runawaylives/) <--- info on runaways...