Memorabilia
Signed Copy of "This Girl is Different " by J.J. Johnson
- Item Number
- 142
- Estimated Value
- Priceless
- Opening Bid
- 6 USD
Item Description
"This Girl is Different," a novel by J.J. Johnson (Peachtree Publishers, 2011): Evie is different. Not just her upbringing—though that’s certainly been unusual—but also her mindset. She’s smart, independent, opinionated, and ready to take on a new challenge: The Institution of School.
Yes, Evie has decided to forego her counterculture lifestyle long enough to spend her senior year in high school. As a sort of ethnographic research. Plus maybe just a tiny urge to have those universal experiences she’s seen in movies—boyfriends, best friends, detention, people getting stuffed in lockers, prom queens, and house parties.
It doesn’t take this homeschooled girl long to discover that high school is a whole new world, and not in the ways she expected. It’s a social minefield, and Evie finds herself confronting new problems at every turn: what, exactly, are the rules? Can’t you ignore social status and just… be who you are? And what’s with all the hypocrisy?
Ever the idealist, Evie sets out to make changes. Big changes. But it turns out that The Man doesn’t always want you to fix The System. And that’s when she has to figure out answers to some of life’s great questions: Is love the One Unifying Truth? Is authority always dangerous? What’s wrong with labels? And what do you do when the revolution you started turns around to bite you in the butt?
Awards for This Girl is Different:
2011 Parent's Choice Foundation Silver Award
2012 American Library Association Amelia Bloomer Recommended List
2012 Bankstreet Best Children's Books of the Year
2012-2013 Georgia Peach Book Award - Teen Book Nominee
2012-2013 Keystone to Reading Annotated Book Award List
Donated By:
J.J. Johnson
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