Twelve (Library Binding)

by Lauren Myracle (Author) "THE THING ABOUT BIRTHDAYS, especially if you just that very day turned twelve, is that you should make a point of trying to look good..." (more)

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Library Binding: 202 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1439574243
ISBN-13: 978-1439574249
Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 250 g
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TWELVE chronicles the year between Winnie Perry's twelfth and thirteenth birthdays. Not a moment is left unexamined, from the vicissitudes of friendships to the changes in a young woman's body. Winnie alienates some friends and makes others, turns often to her older sister for assurance and advice and to her younger brother for playful moments, and emerges as a more confident young lady. Narrator Jen Taylor is chatty, conspiratorial, dejected, or elated as each moment necessitates. Her voice is light and her pacing jaunty as Winnie moves from boy watching to classmate assessing to birthday planning. Listeners will be enveloped by her welcoming voice. A.R. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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"I didn't want to be a child, and I didn't want to be a woman, and sometimes I just didn't know how to be in between." Winnie, the hero of Eleven (2004), is sometimes too articulate for a sixth-grader, but girls will welcome the information in her funny, sometimes touching daily drama as she starts junior high in Atlanta and deals with family, friends, and enemies, as well as the puberty rites of buying her first bra and getting her period. Then there is the embarrassment of losing the tampon in the pool, but she gets over it. At school she is hurt by her best friend's rejection, and she is ashamed when she acts as a bully toward someone else. And there is a budding romance. The contemporary voice is casual, funny, and, well, nice. Fans of Judy Blume and of Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's early Alice books will want this. Hazel Rochman
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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