Product Details
Atheneum, February 2001
Hardcover, 272 pages
ISBN-10: 0689828276
ISBN-13: 9780689828270
Ages: 12 and up
Grades: 7 and up
Awards and Nominations
- National Book Award Winner
- ALA Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book
- ABA Pick of the Lists
- ALA Notable Children's Books
- ALA Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults
- Booklist Editors' Choice
- California Young Reader Medal Nominee
- Children's Literature Choice List
- Horn Book Fanfare
- Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor Book
- Publishers Weekly Best Books
- School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
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Description
LaVaughn is fifteen now, and she's still fiercely determined to go to college. But that's the only thing she's sure about. Loyalty to her father bubbles up as her mother grows closer to a new man. The two girls she used to do everything with have chosen a path LaVaughn wants no part of. And then there's Jody. LaVaughn can't believe how gorgeous he is...or how confusing. He acts like he's in love with her, but is he?
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