# Stand-Off

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- Book: [Stand-Off](https://www.bookquiver.com/andy-smith/stand-off) ([Stand-Off.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/andy-smith/stand-off.md))
- Authors: [Andy Smith](https://www.bookquiver.com/andy-smith)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4135-477-4
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2015-09-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Senior year is supposed to be easy, but for Ryan Dean West, there are no guarantees. Ryan Dean finds himself as the rugby team's new captain and stand-off - the position once played by his friend, Joey. Plus, somehow he's inherited as his roommate Sam Abernathy, a twelve-year-old cooking whiz with extreme claustrophobia and a crush on Annie Altman, Ryan Dean's girlfriend. And Ryan Dean has his own problems, too - he's haunted by things from his past he can't escape, fear of losing Annie, and the fact that sometimes the uncontrollable force of friendship moves under its own power.