- Nineteen sixties, Fiction, Identity, Juvenile fiction
Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Lynne Rae Perkins
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 337
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press, HarperCollins Publishers, HarperTrophy
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060092733
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First sentence
“She wished something would happen.”
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