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    Dwayne's World
    Dwayne's World
    Dwayne's World
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    Dwayne's World

    By Jim Wagner

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    Dwayne's goal is simple. He wants to survive year nine at school. That is not as easy as it sounds because he is a constant target of bullies. He normally hides from everyone at school when he is not being hit with flying wads of paper in a classroom.
    Dwayne lives in a weird world. His parents are separated, his brother refuses to talk, he is the smallest kid in his class and worst of all his mother starts to date his Science teacher.
    Dwayne learns how to live in this weird world, although some days are harder than others.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJim Wagner
    Release dateDec 5, 2014
    ISBN9781921947544
    Dwayne's World
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    Jim Wagner

    I was born in Cincinnati and grew up in the American Mid-West. I graduated from the University of Notre Dame and received a Masters in Education from the University of Cincinnati. I became a teacher and found a job teaching English and Film and Television at Trinity Bay State High School in Cairns, Australia. As a teacher I wrote many One Act Plays that students enjoyed performing in. I became the Rugby coach at the school and began writing novels that my students could read, relate to and understand. I decided to publish the novels under the name of Teen Friendly Books. At present I have 24 written and 15 published. My plan is to write many more books for teens to read and enjoy.

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      Dwayne's World - Jim Wagner

      Dwayne’s World

      by Jim Wagner

      This Edition published by Teen Friendly Books at Smashwords

      Copyright 2014 by Jim Wagner

      This ebook is licensed for you personal enjoyment only. The book may not be re-sold or given to others. The book remains the copyrighted property of the author.

      A Teen Friendly Book

      Life is not always fair

      Chapter One

      Not Fair

      It was not my fault. Really. I know that I say that a lot, maybe too much, and a lot of times it is my fault. But this time I was not lying. IT WAS NOT MY FAULT!

      I was there, I admit that; and I saw what happened; I admit that. But I’ll say it again, IT WAS NOT MY FAULT!

      I strongly cry out that I am not to blame. I shout that I am NOT GUILTY. But in the end I don’t think it would make any difference. My mother thinks that I am guilty and she is very, very mad at me.

      I have never seen her angrier. She looked at me and had smoke coming out of her ears. She had fire where her eyes should have been and her nose had so much steam coming out of it I thought she swallowed a fire extinguisher.

      She was so mad that she took my PSP away from me for life. That’s what she yelled, For Life! when she grabbed it from my hands and started twisting it in her hands.

      I figure that I will never see it again. Her twisting it damaged it forever. And that’s too bad because playing on my PSP is one of the only things that I am good at. I am not as good as Jacob Woosop, he is a superstar, but I am good, or was good.

      My name is Dwayne. I am 13 years old and going on 14. I am almost there, almost fourteen. I hope I make it. My mother keeps telling me that she hopes that I grow up by the time that I get to fourteen. I don’t know what growing up means to her, but she keeps saying that when I am fourteen things will be different for me.

      I think that she might be hoping that things will change for her too and that I will not get into trouble anymore. I always seem to be in trouble, everywhere. At school, at home and with the neighbors. And she is always getting told about it. Every time the phone rings she says, What did you do this time?

      I don’t know how I get into so much trouble. It always seems to find me, and sometimes it is not my fault. I think that I have bad luck, very bad luck.

      Like the other day I was minding my own business at lunch and a soccer ball flew through the air and hit me in the head. It hit me in the head! And it hurt. A soccer ball hitting the head hurts. Try getting hit in the head sometime and there will be pain.

      I wasn’t happy and I kicked it back where it came from. But my kick was not very good and it hit Jennifer Louden in the ear. She was drinking an apple juice that she ended up spitting out all over Charlene Edwards who was so surprised at feeling apple juice in her face that she fell back off the bench that she was sitting on and bashed her head on the concrete.

      There wasn’t any blood, but she had a big lump on her head. And who got into trouble? Me. And it wasn’t my fault. No. I did not start the whole thing by kicking the ball into my own head. But I am the one who got into trouble.

      The other thing I am hoping for when I turn fourteen is growing taller. I am short for my age, very short. I’m supposed to be growing. Most of the other boys in my class have grown huge amounts in the last few months. Some guys who were the same size as me yesterday, are twice as big as me today. I’m hoping that when I turn fourteen that I grow big and tall very quickly and that I tower over the small boys.

      By the way, I’m writing this because I don’t have anything else to do. My whole life was playing with my PSP and since that is gone I have nothing left, except getting into trouble.

      So here I am, sitting alone in my room, in trouble and not allowed to leave. I have nothing to do, so I thought that I would sit down and write. I thought if I sat down and wrote what really happened, my mother would read it and find out that it was not really my fault.

      She is a single mum. That means that she is the only adult in her house. She lives with her two kids, that would be me and my brother. I have a younger brother named Dylan.

      My mother’s name is Debbie and my father is Derik. They like the letter D in our family. I think they thought it was a cute thing to give everyone in the family a D name.

      After my father left us to live with another lady, my mother continued calling him D words. Some were not so cute. She called him the Devil man and a Deadbeat and a Dead head and Disgusting as well as words beginning with other letters like a Horror and Uncaring and Heartless and Cold.

      Then she got to calling him animal words like Rat and Parasite and Snake before she called him Scumbag and Garbage,

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