That's right, folks. The lovely Andrew Smith is publishing a second novel in 2014--yay! The first one, Grasshopper Jungle, will get some Printz award in January, I believe. This second novel, I believe, will be more popular with the masses, i.e. teenagers.
Finn is a teenage boy who is coming-of-age with an awesome best friend named Cade and a move-in-from-Chicago love interest in Julia.
And that's all I'm going to tell you for right now until this book is published. I will, however, leave you with some quotes from the awesome novel. Don't forget I read the downloadable version of this novel from Edelweiss, so these quotes don't have page numbers and they may change with the final copy of the book. But these are lines that made me laugh. Smith is a genius with words and the teenage mind.
"Sometimes kids just have to write off lost articles of clothing at the end of a party."
"Markie was an okay guy, just a little tightly wound and twitchy. You get that way playing shortstop, where it is so easy to make costly mistakes, which are closely related to extinction."
"Julia Bishop was like an undressing, sleeping-bag ninja."
"The whole married-woman thing was a matter for ethics, which they do not teach teenage boys at Burnt Mill Creek High School."
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