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Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr

This is book two for me out of the three YA novels nominated for a California Young Reader Medal this year. As I mentioned before, I’m trying to get a jump start on reading some of the nominees before the students start scrambling for the books. I actually enjoyed this one more than St. Iggy, [...]

July 31, 2009  Tags: California Young Reader Medal, coming of age, drugs, parent/teen relationships, realistic, teen sex  Posted in: Young Adult, fiction  No Comments

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  With a BA in English Education, an MA in English Literature, and over ten years of teaching experience at both the middle and high school level, it is an understatement to say that I've read a lot of books.

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