Struck by lightning : the Carson Phillips journal / Chris Colfer.

Author: Colfer, Chris, 1990-

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co./Hachette Book Group, 2012.

ISBN: 9780316232951 (hbk.)
0316232955 (hbk.)

Description: 258 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject: High school students Juvenile fiction.
Journalism, High school Juvenile fiction.
Diaries Juvenile fiction.
Extortion Juvenile fiction.
Problem families Juvenile fiction.
College applications Juvenile fiction.
Student newspapers and periodicals Juvenile fiction.
Youths' writings, American.
High school students Fiction.
Journalism, High school Fiction.
Diaries Fiction.
Extortion Fiction.
Family problems Fiction.
College applications Fiction.
Student newspapers and periodicals Fiction.

Notes: "Now a major motion picture"--Jacket.

Summary: "Carson Phillips is at the bottom of the food chain in a high school filled with people he hates, stuck living with his depressed single mother in a small-minded town at the corner of nothing and nowhere. He has just one goal: escape to Northwestern University and a career as a hard-hitting journalist. His guidance counselor tells him that he needs to bolster his application by creating a literary magazine. Which means he needs submissions. From other students. Carson resorts to the only thing he can think of: blackmail."--Jacket flyleaf.