Kung Fu High School
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| Author | Ryan Gattis |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Marshall Arisman |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Action drama fiction |
| Genre | Novel, Action fiction |
| Publisher | Harvest Books[1] |
Publication date | 2005 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 288 |
Kung Fu High School is an action/romance novel written by Ryan Gattis, his second novel, and published by Harvest Books, a subsidiary of Harcourt Books.[1] The book explores the mind of a young girl named Jen who, along with her brother Cue and legendary martial artist cousin, Jimmy Chang, attends Kung Fu High School, where a powerful drug kingpin named Ridley pits all students against each other in order to maintain control over his corrupt business he runs using the students he controls. Jimmy Chang, just having come from the most prestigious martial arts academy in Hong Kong with a record of 2,412 wins and zero losses and no hits scored on him on all of his tournaments, is pulled into the mess that is Kung Fu High School, and Jen's life. However, Jimmy has promised his mother never to engage in a fight, after leaving four thugs on the ground during an attempted assault. The only thing wrong with that promise, is the fact that Kung Fu High School's acceptance rule is to get "kicked in", a violent ritual where all students, being a martial artist in one way or another, gang up to beat on people, and nobody, not even the legendary Jimmy Chang, can get past this rule.
