After an eventful freshman year and a disastrous summer,
fifteen-year-old Will Carter returns to Merrian High none the wiser. The
year starts off pretty normally. He's back on the football field (the
bench area of the field). He and his boys start a fight club to defend
themselves against Scary Terry Moss, who is out of juvie and hunting
Carter. And he goes to homecoming again with Amber Lee. The good news:
she's really into him this year. The bad news: she's all kinds of
pregnant (not with his kid, but that probably goes without saying).
When his on-again/off-again girlfriend, Abby, is accepted to the New
York Drama School, Carter's world is thrown upside down. She wants him
to apply to the school too. He knows it would be awesome, and he's
pretty sure Abby would let him see her naked in New York. But what about
his boys? And with his sister headed to college, can his parents survive
without him? Plus, the application is really long.
It will take a lot of soul-searching (and in-school suspensions) for
Carter to make his decision. In the meantime, there are plenty of
classes to be late to, parties to avoid, and cops to run from.
The laughs and good times continue in Carter's Unfocused, One-Track
Mind, the third book in the Carter series.