Overview
""Show a little maturity,"" he said, which I've doped out to mean: Pass all your courses, avoid detection in all crimes and misdemeanors, don't get pregnant. Celine's father has left her with these instructions. She's not too worried about the last two, but she'll fail English unless she rewrites her Catcher in the Rye essay. And she keeps being interrupted, especially by Jake, the neighbor's boy, who's been dumped on her for the weekend. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Booklist Best Book of the '80s A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year
Full Product Details
Author: Brock Cole
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Imprint: St. Martins Press-3PL
Edition: Sunburst ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 12.70cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.249kg
ISBN: 9780374410827
ISBN 10: 0374410828
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 08 September 2003
Recommended Age: From 12 to 17 years
Audience:
Young adult
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Teenage / Young adult
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Vivid and intelligent. --Starred, School Library Journal Celine is one of the wittiest narrators to step out of the pages of young adult fiction...Her targets range from modern art to televangelism and her aim is true. --The Washington Post An original and disarming first-person narrative about a sixteen-year-old artist and her irresolute yearnings to find a center to her life...[A] mature, fully realized work, and one that sees an exciting author, with an authentic new voice, emerging as an important spokesman for contemporary young adults. --Starred, The Horn Book Start to finish, this book is a delight. It is funny, witty and poignant. --The New York Times Book Review
""Vivid and intelligent."" --Starred, School Library Journal ""Celine is one of the wittiest narrators to step out of the pages of young adult fiction...Her targets range from modern art to televangelism and her aim is true."" --The Washington Post ""An original and disarming first-person narrative about a sixteen-year-old artist and her irresolute yearnings to find a center to her life...[A] mature, fully realized work, and one that sees an exciting author, with an authentic new voice, emerging as an important spokesman for contemporary young adults."" --Starred, The Horn Book ""Start to finish, this book is a delight. It is funny, witty and poignant."" --The New York Times Book Review
Vivid and intelligent. --Starred, School Library Journal Celine is one of the wittiest narrators to step out of the pages of young adult fiction...Her targets range from modern art to televangelism and her aim is true. --The Washington Post An original and disarming first-person narrative about a sixteen-year-old artist and her irresolute yearnings to find a center to her life...[A] mature, fully realized work, and one that sees an exciting author, with an authentic new voice, emerging as an important spokesman for contemporary young adults. --Starred, The Horn Book Start to finish, this book is a delight. It is funny, witty and poignant. --The New York Times Book Review
Author Information
Brock Cole is the author and/or illustrator of many books, including picture books such as Buttons, a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Book, and novels such as The Goats, an ALA Notable Book. He lives in Buffalo, New York.
