Susan Juby, Author . HarperTempest $15.99 (290p) ISBN 978-0-06-051543-0
Revised from a 2000 work published in the author's native Canada, this very funny first novel makes use of the same pseudo-diary format as Louise Rennison's books, but where Rennison's heroine is Everygirl, Juby's is a misfit...
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Susan Juby, Author . HarperTempest $7.99 (290p) ISBN 978-0-06-051545-4
Alice, a misfit extraordinaire, has been home-schooled by her aging-hippie parents since early childhood; now 15, she enrolls at the local high school. "Alice's acerbic apercus will have readers roaring," PW
said in a starred review. &#
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Susan Juby, Harper, $13.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-199519-4
Juby, author of the Alice MacLeod books for young adults and a memoir of alcohol addiction (Nice Recovery), borrows from both genres for her first foray into adult fiction. The result is a sweetly cockamamie tale of the emotional, physical, and...
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Susan Juby. Viking, $18.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-451-46877-2
In a story framed as a creative nonfiction assignment (complete with footnotes), Normandy Pale, a student at a prestigious fine arts high school, recounts the often harrowing and sometimes hilarious events of the first semester of her junior year....
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Susan Juby. HarperCollins Canada, $22.99 trade paper (402p) ISBN 978-1-4434-2395-3
Clouds have gathered over Woefield Farm, the unpromising expanse of B.C. scrubland where rocks “burp spontaneously out of the ground,” in this funny yet surprisingly poignant follow-up to The Woefield Poultry Collective (shortlisted for the Stephen...
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Susan Juby, Author, Angela Goethals, Read by , read by Angela Goethals. Harper Children's Audio $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-054340-2
Goethals does a superb turn as Alice, the alienated teen possessed of a biting sarcasm who stars in Juby's frequently hilarious novel. Providing the perfect air of intelligence tinged with teen angst, Goethals gives Alice's journal about her
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Susan Juby. Viking, $18.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-451-46878-9
Readers don’t need to be fashionistas to appreciate the dilemmas of Charlene “Charlie” Dean and John Thomas-Smith as they prepare for a garment design competition, hoping to win a scholarship to a prestigious fine arts high school. Charlie knows...
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