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Why does Skippy, a fourteen-year-old child at Dublin’s venerable Seabrook University, wind up dead on the ground of the neighborhood doughnut shop?Could it have something related to his buddy Ruprecht Van Doren, an obese guru who is decided to start a portal right into a parallel world utilizing five-dimensional string theory?Could it include Carl, the teen-age drug seller and borderline psychotic who is Skippy’s competitor in love?Or could “the Automator”—the callous, easy-speaking headmaster intent on modernizing the school—have something to cover?Why Skippy dies and what are the results next may be the topic of the stunning and uproarious book, unraveling a mystery that links the kids of Seabrook University for their parents and educators with techniques nobody might have thought. With a cast of people that runs from hip-hop-loving fourteen-year-old Eoin “MC Sexecutioner” Flynn to baseball enjoying midget Philip Kilfether, loaded with questions and answers on everything from Ritalin, to M-theory, to bungee-jumping, for the hidden meaning of the poetry of Robert Frost, Skippy Dies is just a heartfelt, hilarious picture of the suffering, pleasure, and periodic elegance of adolescence, and a heartbreaking representation of the planet usually pleased to compromise its poorest people. Whilst the twenty first century enters its teen-age years, this can be a spectacular book from the young author who'll arrived at determine his era.