Ten Miles Past Normal

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Ten Miles Past Normal

Janie Gorman wants to be normal. The problem with that: sheâ€™s not. Sheâ€™s smart and creative and a little bit funky. Sheâ€™s also an unwilling player in her parentsâ€™ modern-hippy, letâ€™s-live-on-a-goat-farm experiment (regretfully, instigated by a younger, much more enthusiastic Janie). This, to put it simply, is not helping Janie reach that â€œnormal target.â€ She has to milk goats every dayâ€¦and endure her motherâ€™s pseudo celebrity in the homemade-life, crunchy mom blogosphere. Goodbye the days of frozen lasagna and suburban living, hello crazy long bus ride to high school and total isolation--and hovering embarrassments of all kinds. The fresh baked bread is goodâ€¦the threat of homemade jeans, not so much.

It would be nice to go back to that old suburban lifeâ€¦or some grown up, high school version of it, complete with nice, normal boyfriends who wear crew neck sweaters and like social studies. So, whatâ€™s wrong with normal? Well, kind of everything. She knows that, of course, why else would she learn bass and join Jam Band, how else would she know to idolize infamous wild-child and high school senior Emma (her best friend Sarahâ€™s older sister), why else would she get arrested while doing a school project on a local freedom school (jail was not part of the assignment). And, why else would she kind of be falling in "like" with a boy named Monsterâ€”yes, that is his real name. Janie was going for normal, but she missed her mark by about ten milesâ€¦and we mean that as a compliment.

Frances Oâ€™Roark Dowellâ€™s fierce humor and keen eye make her YA debut literary and wise. In the spirit of John Green and E. Lockhart, Dowellâ€™s relatable, quirky characters and clever, fluid writing prove that growing up gets complicatedâ€¦and normal is WAY overrated.
Country USA
Brand Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber FBA-|303662
Model FBA-|303665
ReleaseDate 2011-03-22
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781416995852

Country	USA
Brand	Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	FBA-\|303662
Model	FBA-\|303665
ReleaseDate	2011-03-22
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781416995852

Ten Miles Past Normal

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