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Stan is an intense sixteen-year-old loner who desperately wants to make the junior varsity basketball team. And it seems that he may be about to do so, until he’s blindsided by the unexpected attentions of Janine Igwash. Suddenly Stan is no longer thinking about jump shots. Instead he is obsessed with Janine’s spiky hair, her milky white shoulders and the mysterious little tattoo at the base of her neck, not to mention the heat of her breath, her dark eyes, wide hips and . . . Sometimes Stan’s imagination runs so wild he wonders whether he might be going crazy. That would be par for the course given his home life. His mother is dating the feckless Gary, and his little sister, designated gifted but a holy terror, is acting out. Then Stan’s father arrives on the scene with Stan’s four-year-old half brother, and things become truly insane.

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A Kirkus Best Teen Book of 2011 A Quill & Quire Best Book of the Year: Books for Young People a tender, funny, and insightful coming-of-age story. Horn Book Magazine the novel is a strong, easy read with a fluid and often funny storyline Quill& Quire a delightful novel, one that is smart, tender and funny in all the right places Globe and Mail - A Kirkus Best Teen Book of 2011 - A Quill & Quire Best Book of the Year: Books for Young People - . ..a tender, funny, and insightful coming-of-age story. -- Horn Book Magazine -. ..the novel is a strong, easy read with a fluid and often funny storyline... -- Quill& Quire -. ..a delightful novel, one that is smart, tender and funny in all the right places... Globe and Mail Stan found himself flipping through the book, past cell division, past photosynthesis, past the organs of digestion . . . to the human reproductive system. The page just fell open: The Female Reproductive Organs. They were fantastical shapes in yellow, pink, orange, blue. Like flowers and gourds stuck up inside shadowy female flesh. It was a brand new book so no previous student had had time to scribble foolishness on the pictures. -- from the book

Stan found himself flipping through the book, past cell division, past photosynthesis, past the organs of digestion . . . to the human reproductive system.<br><br> The page just fell open: The Female Reproductive Organs. They were fantastical shapes in yellow, pink, orange, blue. Like flowers and gourds stuck up inside shadowy female flesh. It was a brand new book so no previous student had had time to scribble foolishness on the pictures. <br>-- from the book

- A Kirkus Best Teen Book of 2011<br><br>- A Quill & Quire Best Book of the Year: Books for Young People<br><br>- . ..a tender, funny, and insightful coming-of-age story. -- Horn Book Magazine <br><br>-. ..the novel is a strong, easy read with a fluid and often funny storyline... -- Quill& Quire <br><br>-. ..a delightful novel, one that is smart, tender and funny in all the right places... Globe and Mail

A Kirkus Best Teen Book of 2011 A Quill & Quire Best Book of the Year: Books for Young People a tender, funny, and insightful coming-of-age story. Horn Book Magazine the novel is a strong, easy read with a fluid and often funny storyline Quill& Quire a delightful novel, one that is smart, tender and funny in all the right places Globe and Mail

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