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    My Time as Caz Hazard
    My Time as Caz Hazard
    My Time as Caz Hazard
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    My Time as Caz Hazard

    By Tanya Lloyd Kyi

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    Caz thinks she has a pretty good reason when she punches her boyfriend in the face, but she gets expelled anyway. Moving to a new school, she is told she is dyslexic and sent to special education classes. Caz tries to fit in and get by while suffering the taunts and abuse that others throw at the students in her class. Her friendship with Amanda leads her into new territory—shoplifting and skipping school. Coupled with her parents' impending separation, her life is spiraling out of control.

    Also available in Spanish.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers
    Release dateSep 1, 2004
    ISBN9781554696765
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      My Time as Caz Hazard - Tanya Lloyd Kyi

      disabilities.

      Chapter One

      I punched my so-called boyfriend at the end of grade ten.

      Joel played for a junior hockey team, and his big dream was to get drafted and live in New York or Chicago. I thought he had two chances — slim and none — but that’s not something you can tell your boyfriend.

      Some nights, it seemed like Joel’s main purpose was to bash into other players. They were always getting into fake fights, hauling off their shirts and throwing show-off punches. They pulled their fists back so fast they hardly touched each other.

      I went to the games with my friend Mel — mostly for something to do. I would load us up with hot chocolates and popcorn, and Mel would do her best to look like a hockey fan. With her thick brown hair swept back and her metal-rimmed glasses, she looked more like a Hollywood starlet. I could picture her in one of those old black-and-white romance movies. Mel’s too smart to be interested in hockey. She went to the games for my sake and watched with a slightly puzzled expression.

      Once we saw a player get slammed against the boards near the stands. His head hit the Plexiglas and his eyebrow started bleeding, a little river of red curving down the side of his nose. He looked up and saw these teenyboppers pressed up against the other side of the glass and winked.

      Mel made a disgusted sound. He acts like he’s their personal hockey god. And he’s proud of that blood. It makes me sick.

      He is pretty good-looking. Without the blood, I grinned.

      Joel wasn’t hard to look at either. He had dark brown hair and wide shoulders and a little dusting of freckles that made him look like a kid when he smiled. We’d been going out for three weeks, so I’d been watching more hockey than usual.

      Mel snorted again, still watching the bleeding guy. The problem is that he knows he’s good-looking. Can you believe those girls throwing themselves at him? Puh-leeze. They should receive immediate therapy for bad taste.

      I almost choked on my hot chocolate. Uh, Mel…have you forgotten that I’m dating a hockey player?

      She looked at me primly, but it was obvious that she had momentarily forgotten. Maybe it doesn’t count when you only date one. Just don’t date more than three in a row.

      You’re jealous, I teased.

      "Wait until all of Joel’s teeth get knocked out and then see how jealous I am. Next you’ll be telling me that dentures are so sexy."

      That was Friday night. On Monday morning I was talking to Mel before class and this bimbo from grade nine waltzed up to us. Her hair was teased into cutesy pigtails. She had a posse of two or three other girls standing behind her for moral support.

      I just thought you should know, she said. I hate it when people think you should know something. It’s like when your parents say that something’s for your own good. You can tell it’s going to be bad.

      Bimbo Girl took a deep breath. One of her little friends gave her a push forward. Joel slept with me last night.

      In the middle of her big sentence, her voice cracked. She turned and fled down the hallway and into the girls’ bathroom. One of her friends stayed behind long enough to whisper, She didn’t know about you until afterward.

      Mel tried to calm me down all morning.

      You should talk to him, she said, reasonably. I’m sure he has an explanation.

      Yeah, like explaining that her breasts are bigger than mine.

      Eventually, she gave up on me.

      When the lunch bell rang, I went straight to the gym. I knew he’d be hanging out there with his hockey buddies. His back was to me. I walked up and tapped him on the shoulder. Everyone there went silent. They all must have known about Bimbo Girl. Anger swirled in my head until my eyes watered and my throat felt like it was closing.

      Joel hardly had time to see me. My arm was already back as he turned around. I hit him smack in the nose. He fell flat on his back, like a tree. I turned around and left before he could say anything.

      His friends were already laughing at him.

      Chapter Two

      I got suspended. Who knew? Two seconds, one punch and, voila — two weeks off.

      At first it was totally worth it. It was the end of school anyway, so it was like getting an extra couple of weeks of summer vacation. My week of being grounded was over in a flash. (It was supposed to be two weeks, but my parents got lazy and stopped checking

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