In Zanesville
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great book
submitted by manz on January 26, 2012, 7:35am
This is wonderful book! A 14 year old girl, growing up in the 70s and trying to make her way. Her narration is endearing and true, and I was glad to have found this book. A perfect Alex Award Winner indeed.
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"The beguiling fourteen-year-old narrator of IN ZANESVILLE is a late bloomer. She is used to flying under the radar-a sidekick, a third wheel, a marching band dropout, a disastrous babysitter, the kind of girl whose Eureka moment is the discovery that "fudge" can't be said with an English accent. Luckily, she has a best friend, a similarly undiscovered girl with whom she shares the everyday adventures of a 1970s American girlhood, incidents through which a world is revealed, and character is forged. In time, their friendship is tested-- by their families' claims on them, by a clique of popular girls who stumble upon them as if they were found objects, and by the first, startling, subversive intimations of womanhood. With dry wit and piercing observation, Jo Ann Beard shows us that in the seemingly quiet streets of America's innumerable Zanesvilles is a world of wonders, and that within the souls of the awkward and the overlooked often burns something radiant and unforgettable."
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New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 287 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780316084475
0316084476
SUBJECTS
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Nineteen seventies -- Fiction.
City and town life -- Illinois -- Fiction.
Illinois -- Fiction.