SLATE (New Edition): A Band of Friends Mystery Book I (A Band of Friends Mystery Series) - Softcover

Wright-Mularz, Joan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1732248117 ISBN 13: 9781732248113

Publisher: RANGEPALM PUBLISHING LLC, 2025

Synopsis

SLATE is a junior at a Manhattan private school. Due to an accident of birth, he has the American citizenship his Russian rock-star parents crave. When their work visas expired, they allowed Slate to stay in their luxury New York apartment with a guardian next door. He can sponsor them for green cards when he turns twenty-one. Meanwhile, they visit whenever they can get tourist visas. Their irresponsible drug and alcohol-infused lifestyle could break him, but Slate is smart, sensible, and determined to be the adult in the family.
The start of Fall semester adds more fractures to Slate’s life. His best friend Dash isn’t in his classes, and he’s assigned to a “nightmare” semester project group. More serious problems connected to the celebrity and wealth of his parents follow—extortion, stalking, ominous texts, and a deadly attack. Slate copes by using his courage, his brain, and his friendships.

ROYAL PALM LITERARY AWARD 2023 for Best Young Adult/New Adult novel (Florida Writers Association)
2nd runner-up for BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 (all genres) (Florida Writers Association)
FINALIST: 2023 Dante Rossetti Young Adult Fiction Book Award, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards

Edition details

• Publisher: RANGEPALM PUBLISHING LLC
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1732248117
• ISBN 13: 9781732248113
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Novak Steven
• Number of pages: 255