Author: Michelle MacQueen
Publisher: Twin Rivers Press
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Neighbors aren’t supposed to fake a relationship. They’re also not supposed to kiss like it’s real. Eighteen months ago, an accident didn’t only take their friend, it took their friendship too. Nari can’t remember the last time she spoke with Avery, the last time she thought of him without anger. He’s mean, cruel, he sits atop the food chain at school, looking down on nerds like her. Nari is a nerd in looks only. When falling grades set her back, Avery proposes a deal. Pretend to be his girlfriend to get back at his ex, and he’ll make sure she passes math. It sounds easy enough, and there’s little risk. She’s too focused on sinking grades and the rock band no one can know about to fall for the boy next door. But this boy next door… well, he might just fall for her. Get lost in this sweet and clean young adult romance where the nerd is sometimes a secret rockstar and old friends can become new flames. With heartwarming characters and a guaranteed happy ending, Nerdy Girls Can Rock is a standalone romance in the About That Girl series, perfect for fans of Kasie West and Huntley Fitzpatrick. Keywords: young adult romance, teen romance, boy next door, nerd girl, fake relationship, young love, coming of age, rockstar romance
Nerdy Girls Can Rock
Author: Michelle MacQueen
Publisher: Twin Rivers Press
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Neighbors aren’t supposed to fake a relationship. They’re also not supposed to kiss like it’s real. Eighteen months ago, an accident didn’t only take their friend, it took their friendship too. Nari can’t remember the last time she spoke with Avery, the last time she thought of him without anger. He’s mean, cruel, he sits atop the food chain at school, looking down on nerds like her. Nari is a nerd in looks only. When falling grades set her back, Avery proposes a deal. Pretend to be his girlfriend to get back at his ex, and he’ll make sure she passes math. It sounds easy enough, and there’s little risk. She’s too focused on sinking grades and the rock band no one can know about to fall for the boy next door. But this boy next door… well, he might just fall for her. Get lost in this sweet and clean young adult romance where the nerd is sometimes a secret rockstar and old friends can become new flames. With heartwarming characters and a guaranteed happy ending, Nerdy Girls Can Rock is a standalone romance in the About That Girl series, perfect for fans of Kasie West and Huntley Fitzpatrick. Keywords: young adult romance, teen romance, boy next door, nerd girl, fake relationship, young love, coming of age, rockstar romance
Publisher: Twin Rivers Press
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Neighbors aren’t supposed to fake a relationship. They’re also not supposed to kiss like it’s real. Eighteen months ago, an accident didn’t only take their friend, it took their friendship too. Nari can’t remember the last time she spoke with Avery, the last time she thought of him without anger. He’s mean, cruel, he sits atop the food chain at school, looking down on nerds like her. Nari is a nerd in looks only. When falling grades set her back, Avery proposes a deal. Pretend to be his girlfriend to get back at his ex, and he’ll make sure she passes math. It sounds easy enough, and there’s little risk. She’s too focused on sinking grades and the rock band no one can know about to fall for the boy next door. But this boy next door… well, he might just fall for her. Get lost in this sweet and clean young adult romance where the nerd is sometimes a secret rockstar and old friends can become new flames. With heartwarming characters and a guaranteed happy ending, Nerdy Girls Can Rock is a standalone romance in the About That Girl series, perfect for fans of Kasie West and Huntley Fitzpatrick. Keywords: young adult romance, teen romance, boy next door, nerd girl, fake relationship, young love, coming of age, rockstar romance
Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City
Author: Anne Thomas Soffee
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1556526474
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This hilarious peek into the early years of the hair-band era reveals the hierarchy of fishnets, bustiers, and chicks with the Holy Grail--a backstage pass. After college, Anne Thomas Soffee journeyed to Los Angeles to start a career as a rock journalist and small-time heavy-metal flack. A taste for other people's prescriptions and too much beer edges her freelance journalism work right off her schedule. She struggles with not being thin enough, pretty enough, or cool enough when, in the midst of the L.A. riots, Soffee is offered a coveted slot in Virginia Commonwealth University's MFA writing program. Determined to pull herself out of current habits, Soffee starts turning her life around, making a stop at rehab before she heads off to graduate school. Her quarter-life crisis is packed with offbeat characters that prove that fact is often funnier than fiction.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1556526474
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This hilarious peek into the early years of the hair-band era reveals the hierarchy of fishnets, bustiers, and chicks with the Holy Grail--a backstage pass. After college, Anne Thomas Soffee journeyed to Los Angeles to start a career as a rock journalist and small-time heavy-metal flack. A taste for other people's prescriptions and too much beer edges her freelance journalism work right off her schedule. She struggles with not being thin enough, pretty enough, or cool enough when, in the midst of the L.A. riots, Soffee is offered a coveted slot in Virginia Commonwealth University's MFA writing program. Determined to pull herself out of current habits, Soffee starts turning her life around, making a stop at rehab before she heads off to graduate school. Her quarter-life crisis is packed with offbeat characters that prove that fact is often funnier than fiction.
Writers and Their Notebooks
Author: Diana M. Raab
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611179939
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Personal reflections on the vital role of the notebook in creative writing, from Dorianne Laux, Sue Grafton, John Dufresne, Kyoko Mori, and more. This collection of essays by established professional writers explores how their notebooks serve as their studios and workshops—places to collect, to play, and to make new discoveries with language, passions, and curiosities. For these diverse writers, the journal also serves as an ideal forum to develop their writing voice, whether crafting fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. Some include sample journal entries that have since developed into published pieces. Through their individual approaches to keeping a notebook, the contributors offer valuable advice, personal recollections, and a hearty endorsement of the value of using notebooks to document, develop, and nurture a writer’s creative spark.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611179939
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Personal reflections on the vital role of the notebook in creative writing, from Dorianne Laux, Sue Grafton, John Dufresne, Kyoko Mori, and more. This collection of essays by established professional writers explores how their notebooks serve as their studios and workshops—places to collect, to play, and to make new discoveries with language, passions, and curiosities. For these diverse writers, the journal also serves as an ideal forum to develop their writing voice, whether crafting fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. Some include sample journal entries that have since developed into published pieces. Through their individual approaches to keeping a notebook, the contributors offer valuable advice, personal recollections, and a hearty endorsement of the value of using notebooks to document, develop, and nurture a writer’s creative spark.
What to Say Next
Author: Julie Buxbaum
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 0553535714
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"What to Say Next reminds readers that hope can be found in unexpected places." –Bustle From the New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things comes a story about two struggling teenagers who find an unexpected connection just when they need it most. Nicola Yoon, the bestselling author of Everything, Everything, calls it "charming, funny, and deeply affecting." Sometimes a new perspective is all that is needed to make sense of the world. KIT: I don’t know why I decide not to sit with Annie and Violet at lunch. It feels like no one here gets what I’m going through. How could they? I don’t even understand. DAVID: In the 622 days I’ve attended Mapleview High, Kit Lowell is the first person to sit at my lunch table. I mean, I’ve never once sat with someone until now. “So your dad is dead,” I say to Kit, because this is a fact I’ve recently learned about her. When an unlikely friendship is sparked between relatively popular Kit Lowell and socially isolated David Drucker, everyone is surprised, most of all Kit and David. Kit appreciates David’s blunt honesty—in fact, she finds it bizarrely refreshing. David welcomes Kit’s attention and her inquisitive nature. When she asks for his help figuring out the how and why of her dad’s tragic car accident, David is all in. But neither of them can predict what they’ll find. Can their friendship survive the truth? Named a Best Young Adult Novel of the Year by POPSUGAR “Charming, funny, and deeply affecting all at the same time.” –Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star “Heartfelt, charming, deep, and real. I love it with all my heart.” –Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 0553535714
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"What to Say Next reminds readers that hope can be found in unexpected places." –Bustle From the New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things comes a story about two struggling teenagers who find an unexpected connection just when they need it most. Nicola Yoon, the bestselling author of Everything, Everything, calls it "charming, funny, and deeply affecting." Sometimes a new perspective is all that is needed to make sense of the world. KIT: I don’t know why I decide not to sit with Annie and Violet at lunch. It feels like no one here gets what I’m going through. How could they? I don’t even understand. DAVID: In the 622 days I’ve attended Mapleview High, Kit Lowell is the first person to sit at my lunch table. I mean, I’ve never once sat with someone until now. “So your dad is dead,” I say to Kit, because this is a fact I’ve recently learned about her. When an unlikely friendship is sparked between relatively popular Kit Lowell and socially isolated David Drucker, everyone is surprised, most of all Kit and David. Kit appreciates David’s blunt honesty—in fact, she finds it bizarrely refreshing. David welcomes Kit’s attention and her inquisitive nature. When she asks for his help figuring out the how and why of her dad’s tragic car accident, David is all in. But neither of them can predict what they’ll find. Can their friendship survive the truth? Named a Best Young Adult Novel of the Year by POPSUGAR “Charming, funny, and deeply affecting all at the same time.” –Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star “Heartfelt, charming, deep, and real. I love it with all my heart.” –Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places
My Big Mouth: 10 Songs I Wrote That Almost Got Me Killed
Author: Peter Hannan
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545422876
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A hilarious illustrated novel from the creator of CatDog! Davis Delaware is not from Delaware. But try telling that to everyone at his new school. When you move in the middle of ninth grade, people are going to think whatever they want about you. If they pay attention at all. Blending in is fine with Davis. He just wants to doodle in his notebook. Make a few friends. Not rock the boat.Easier said than done.Because when he starts a band called The Amazing Dweebs with beautiful Molly and nerdy Edwin, Davis rocks the boat big-time. And all that rocking gets the attention of school bully Gerald "the Butcher" Boggs. Now Davis is suddenly king of the school -- and the Butcher's next target.This can't end well.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545422876
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A hilarious illustrated novel from the creator of CatDog! Davis Delaware is not from Delaware. But try telling that to everyone at his new school. When you move in the middle of ninth grade, people are going to think whatever they want about you. If they pay attention at all. Blending in is fine with Davis. He just wants to doodle in his notebook. Make a few friends. Not rock the boat.Easier said than done.Because when he starts a band called The Amazing Dweebs with beautiful Molly and nerdy Edwin, Davis rocks the boat big-time. And all that rocking gets the attention of school bully Gerald "the Butcher" Boggs. Now Davis is suddenly king of the school -- and the Butcher's next target.This can't end well.
Geek Girl Rising
Author: Heather Cabot
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250112265
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This book "isn't about the famous tech trailblazers you already know, like Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer. Instead, veteran journalists Heather Cabot and Samantha Walravens introduce readers to the ... female entrepreneurs and technologists fighting at the grassroots level for an ownership stake in the revolution that's changing the way we live, work and connect to each other"--Amazon.com.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250112265
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This book "isn't about the famous tech trailblazers you already know, like Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer. Instead, veteran journalists Heather Cabot and Samantha Walravens introduce readers to the ... female entrepreneurs and technologists fighting at the grassroots level for an ownership stake in the revolution that's changing the way we live, work and connect to each other"--Amazon.com.
Star-Crossed
Author: Barbara Dee
Publisher: Aladdin
ISBN: 1481478494
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Twelve-year-old Mattie wrestles with her crush on Gemma as they participate in their school production of Romeo and Juliet in what School Library Journal calls “a fine choice for middle school libraries in need of accessible LGBTQ stories.” Twelve-year-old Mattie is thrilled when she learns the eighth grade play will be Romeo and Juliet. In particular, she can’t wait to share the stage with Gemma Braithwaite, who has been cast as Juliet. Gemma is brilliant, pretty—and British!—and Mattie starts to see her as more than just a friend. But Mattie has also had an on/off crush on her classmate Elijah since, well, forever. Is it possible to have a crush on both boys AND girls? If that wasn’t enough to deal with, things offstage are beginning to resemble their own Shakespearean drama: the cast is fighting, and the boy playing Romeo may not be up to the challenge of the role. And due to a last-minute emergency, Mattie is asked to step up and take over the leading role—opposite Gemma’s Juliet—just as Mattie’s secret crush starts to become not-so-secret in her group of friends. In this funny, sweet, and clever look at the complicated nature of middle school romance, Mattie learns how to become a lead player in her own life.
Publisher: Aladdin
ISBN: 1481478494
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Twelve-year-old Mattie wrestles with her crush on Gemma as they participate in their school production of Romeo and Juliet in what School Library Journal calls “a fine choice for middle school libraries in need of accessible LGBTQ stories.” Twelve-year-old Mattie is thrilled when she learns the eighth grade play will be Romeo and Juliet. In particular, she can’t wait to share the stage with Gemma Braithwaite, who has been cast as Juliet. Gemma is brilliant, pretty—and British!—and Mattie starts to see her as more than just a friend. But Mattie has also had an on/off crush on her classmate Elijah since, well, forever. Is it possible to have a crush on both boys AND girls? If that wasn’t enough to deal with, things offstage are beginning to resemble their own Shakespearean drama: the cast is fighting, and the boy playing Romeo may not be up to the challenge of the role. And due to a last-minute emergency, Mattie is asked to step up and take over the leading role—opposite Gemma’s Juliet—just as Mattie’s secret crush starts to become not-so-secret in her group of friends. In this funny, sweet, and clever look at the complicated nature of middle school romance, Mattie learns how to become a lead player in her own life.
Song of the Sparrow
Author: Lisa Ann Sandell
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545361060
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This gripping addition to the Camelot canon -- written in beautiful verse -- has received glowing praise, and is an empowering story of rebellion and courage. Since the days of King Arthur, there have been poems and paintings created in her name. She is Elaine of Ascolat, the Lady of Shalott, and now there is a book all her own. The year is 490 A.D. and 16-year-old Elaine has a temperament to match her fiery red hair. Living on a military base with her father, brothers, and the rest of Arthur's army, Elaine pines for the handsome Lancelot, and longs for a female companion. But when the cruel, beautiful Gwynivere arrives, Elaine is confronted with startling emotions of jealousy and rivalry. Can Elaine find the strength to survive the birth of a kingdom?
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545361060
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This gripping addition to the Camelot canon -- written in beautiful verse -- has received glowing praise, and is an empowering story of rebellion and courage. Since the days of King Arthur, there have been poems and paintings created in her name. She is Elaine of Ascolat, the Lady of Shalott, and now there is a book all her own. The year is 490 A.D. and 16-year-old Elaine has a temperament to match her fiery red hair. Living on a military base with her father, brothers, and the rest of Arthur's army, Elaine pines for the handsome Lancelot, and longs for a female companion. But when the cruel, beautiful Gwynivere arrives, Elaine is confronted with startling emotions of jealousy and rivalry. Can Elaine find the strength to survive the birth of a kingdom?
Delinquents and Debutantes
Author: Sherrie A. Inness
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814737730
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
The contributors, including such leading scholars as Vicki L. Ruiz, Jennifer Scanlon, and Miriam Formanek-Brunell, examine myriad ways in which a variety of discourses and activities from popular girls' magazines and advertisements to babysitting and the Girl Scouts help form girls' experiences of what it means to be a girl, and later a woman, in our society. The essays address such topics as board games and the socialization of adolescent girls, dolls and political ideologies, Nancy Drew and the Filipina American experience, the queering of girls' detective fiction, and female juvenile delinquency to demonstrate how cultural discourses shape both the young and teenage girl in America. Although girls' culture has until now received comparatively little attention from scholars, this work confirms that understanding the culture of girls is essential to understanding how gender works in our society. Making a significant contribution to a long-neglected area of social and cultural inquiry, Delinquents and Debutantes will be of central interest to those in women's studies, American studies, history, literature, and cultural studies.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814737730
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
The contributors, including such leading scholars as Vicki L. Ruiz, Jennifer Scanlon, and Miriam Formanek-Brunell, examine myriad ways in which a variety of discourses and activities from popular girls' magazines and advertisements to babysitting and the Girl Scouts help form girls' experiences of what it means to be a girl, and later a woman, in our society. The essays address such topics as board games and the socialization of adolescent girls, dolls and political ideologies, Nancy Drew and the Filipina American experience, the queering of girls' detective fiction, and female juvenile delinquency to demonstrate how cultural discourses shape both the young and teenage girl in America. Although girls' culture has until now received comparatively little attention from scholars, this work confirms that understanding the culture of girls is essential to understanding how gender works in our society. Making a significant contribution to a long-neglected area of social and cultural inquiry, Delinquents and Debutantes will be of central interest to those in women's studies, American studies, history, literature, and cultural studies.
The Vanished (Shuri: A Black Panther Novel #2)
Author: Nic Stone
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338747657
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Shuri, the Princess of Wakanda (and sister to the Black Panther), sets out to save a group of kidnapped girls in this all-new, original middle-grade novel by New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone! With the heart-shaped herb thriving, a group of Wakanda's finest engineers working on expanding her dome technology, and the borders more fortified than ever, Princess Shuri can finally focus on what matters most: her training.Soon, a bigger problem rears its head. The princess hears whispers of exceptionally talented young girls across the world going missing. A young environmental scientist in Kenya, a French physics prodigy -- the list of the missing keeps growing and growing. And when this mystery hits home in a way the princess would've never expected, there's no more time for hesitation: There are lost girls out there somewhere, and Shuri is determined not to let them be forgotten
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338747657
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Shuri, the Princess of Wakanda (and sister to the Black Panther), sets out to save a group of kidnapped girls in this all-new, original middle-grade novel by New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone! With the heart-shaped herb thriving, a group of Wakanda's finest engineers working on expanding her dome technology, and the borders more fortified than ever, Princess Shuri can finally focus on what matters most: her training.Soon, a bigger problem rears its head. The princess hears whispers of exceptionally talented young girls across the world going missing. A young environmental scientist in Kenya, a French physics prodigy -- the list of the missing keeps growing and growing. And when this mystery hits home in a way the princess would've never expected, there's no more time for hesitation: There are lost girls out there somewhere, and Shuri is determined not to let them be forgotten