Kung Fu High School

Infobox Book
name = Kung Fu High School


image_caption = "Kung Fu High School" US issue cover
author = Ryan Gattis
cover_artist = Marshall Arisman
country = USA
language = English
series =
subject = action drama fiction
genre = Action fiction, Novel
publisher = Harcourt Books
release_date = 2005
pages = 288

"Kung Fu High School" is a brutally descriptive action, romance, fiction novel written Ryan Gattis. The book explores the mind of a young girl named Jen, who along with her brother Cue, and legendary martial artist cousin, Jimmy Chang attend 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 said students. Jimmy Chang just having come from far away is pulled into the mess that is Kung Fu High School, and Jen's life, however he's promised his mother never to engage in a fight. 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 you, and nobody, not even the legendary Jimmy Chang can get pass this rule.

Plot

Jen, a teenage girl, and her brother Kyozo, or Cue as she calls him; attend Martin Luther King Junior High School. However due to the notorious Ridley's drug trafficking through the school, it has become a run down war zone for both his workers, and those who despise him. The only thing things these students at Kung Fu have in common are their ability to fight, or rather survive, and the fact that they've all been "kicked in". A welcoming practice at Kung Fu where you are beaten by everyone in order to teach you your in the school.The story starts off with Jen living an already irregular life, having to literally put on armor before going to school. One day Jen's long lost cousin arrives at her front door, sent by her late mother's sister.

References

*"Kung Fu High School." Publishers Weekly 252.28 (18 July 2005): 184-184.
*Engberg, Gillian. "Kung Fu High School." Booklist 101.22 (Aug. 2005): 1991-1991.