Available for review: The Corporate Kid (YA)

[Paula Krapf]

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Award-winning author Neil Shulman (who brought us “Doc Hollywood”), along with Susan Wrathall, tackles the increasingly blurred definition of what honesty and integrity mean in today’s society with his new YA novel, The Corporate Kid.

The Corporate Kid’s main character, Charles Sullivan, looks like your average 15-year-old. A good kid. He plays basketball with his friends. He listens to music. He argues with his little sister.

Charles is from the poor part of Atlanta, with a strong sense of family and a good moral compass. Bill Bradford is a powerful CEO who’s lost his way — not just ethically, but, one fateful Sunday morning, also literally. A few wrong turns bring Bill to the south side of town, where he hits Charles’s mother in a car accident.

Before long the lives of the Sullivan and Bradford families are intertwined in a mixture of comedy and drama — and opportunity. Charles finds himself face to face with crooked attorneys, helpful pastors, angry protestors, and a cast of other friends and foes, as events take him from his poor neighborhood to the boardroom of Bradford’s giant company.

The Corporate Kid shows how ethical decision-making is something everyone can aspire to, even if they’re seemingly powerless and even if they’ve temporarily lost their way. Charles stays true to his morals and changes the world he lives in.

Find out more at http://www.thecorporatekid.com.

About the authors: Neil Shulman, M.D., is a professor at Emory’s School of Medicine and the author of more than thirty books for readers of all ages. He is a past president of Patch Adams’ nonprofit Gesundheit! Institute, and is a sought-after speaker for Fortune 500 companies and other large audiences.

Susan Wrathall has been a teacher in the field of special education for more than twenty-five years. The Corporate Kid is her first novel.

Title: The Corporate Kid
Authors: Neil Shulman and Susan Wrathall
ISBN: 978-0794836191
Genre: YA
Publication Date: September 2011
Pages: 352
Publisher: Whitman Publishing