Amazing and Death Defying Diary of Eugene Dingman

On his fifteenth birthday, precocious Eugene Dingman begins the amazing and death-defying diary of his summer spent as a waiter at a ritzy Adirondack resort. "Zindel masterfully captures the mixture of bravado, ingenuousness and aching self-doubt that are endemic to adolescence."--"Publishers Weekly. An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, New York Public Library--Books for the Teen Age.