High School Playbook

This is the saga of one Fergus Gordon, a sophomore at Booker High. He is a self-proclaimed loser after a turbulent year as a freshman. Fergus determines that if he doesn’t create some other path he will be doomed for the rest of his life. What he really needs is a push in the right direction. That push comes from an unlikely source: an old, handmade book of simple cardboard and notebook paper titled the Final Opus. This book was written by Fergus’s namesake and his father’s high school best friend. Part philosophy and survival guide, and part self-help book, The Final Opus begins to lead Fergus into a larger world. When Fergus tries out for cross country, he not only makes the team but also discovers a smoldering core of fierce competitiveness he didn’t know he had. When he joins an art class, he falls a little in love and learns to create comforting shades of gray rather than living in the harsh black and white his world forced on him.