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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20061001
Author:Karen Cruze

With a nod to Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment in the epigraph, author Blake Nelson clues readers in to the heavy intent of his new book Paranoid Park (Viking, 186 pages, $15.99) about a skateboarder right from the start. But don't mistake serious for dull in this teen novel appropriate for readers in grades 7-10. This examination of guilt and responsibility in Portland, Oregon, pushes off fast and keeps going on a hell-bent course toward a conclusion teens can debate for days.

The unnamed "Prep" (short for college prep student) who spills his story into a spiral notebook is a ...

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