Geography Club

Brent Hartinger

Sep 2009 · Harper Collins

About this ebook

Russel Middlebrook is convinced he's the only gay kid at Goodkind High School.

Then his online gay chat buddy turns out to be none other than Kevin, the popular but closeted star of the school's baseball team. Soon Russel meets other gay students, too. There's his best friend Min, who reveals that she is bisexual, and her soccer–playing girlfriend Terese. Then there's Terese's politically active friend, Ike.

But how can kids this diverse get together without drawing attention to themselves?

"We just choose a club that's so boring, nobody in their right mind would ever in a million years join it. We could call it Geography Club!"

Brent Hartinger's debut novel, what became first of a series about Russel Middlebrook, is a fast–paced, funny, and trenchant portrait of contemporary teenagers who may not learn any actual geography in their latest club, but who learn plenty about the treacherous social terrain of high school and the even more dangerous landscape of the human heart.

Ratings and reviews

When two teenage gay boys start to date, they realize they need a support system for being gay. They start the geography club to give each other support, and then peer pressure ends the boys' relationship. However, the club stays and is renamed the Goodkind High School Gay-Straight-Bisexual Alliance."

This book really made me think about what high school could of been like and even made me think back on some chooses I made.... I'm glad I read this book because it's not all happiness and sunshine it's got parts painful to read emotionally but also up lifting parts to it.

The main character, Russel Middlebrook discovers that he is not the only gay student at his high school. they set up the Geography Club in order to meet and discuss what is going on in the lives of LGBT students

About the author

Brent Hartinger has been a full-time author for many years, writing novels, plays, and screenplays. He lives in Washington State. Among his books are Geography Club and its sequel, The Order of the Poison Oak, as well as The Last Chance Texaco and Split Screen. Like Dave and his friends, as a teenager he resisted getting a job for as long as possible but finally was forced by his parents to go to work as a lifeguard at age sixteen. He still smells like coconut sunblock.