Download or read book Benched written by Cristy Watson and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cody and his friends are approached by gang members with whom the older brother he still mourns was involved, stealing a park bench seems like a harmless prank, until he learns he may have risked his chance to write for the school paper.