Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Ten Miles Past Normal by Frances O'Roark Dowell


I've always been a big fan of Dairy Queen and The Off Season, so I was excited to see this Advance Reader's Copy show up on my doorstep from Simon & Schuster. The cover is cool and it seemed to be about a farm girl, so I anxiously cracked it open last night.

Janie Gorman is a farm girl--cool when when she was nine and convinced her parents to move to a farm, but embarrassing now that she's a freshman in high school and getting on the bus with goat poop on her shoe. She's stuck in that freshman place of wondering if she should try to blend in with everyone or just stick with being who she is. She buys vintage clothes and sews cowboy boots on her skirts, but then she also just wants someone to eat lunch with. When a senior boy named Monster shows her some attention and wants to teach her the bass guitar, she isn't sure what to do. But the confidence she gains is just enough to help her realize that who she is is just right. She's a bit different, with a blogging mom who makes goat cheese, but that's okay.

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