Into the Wild Nerd Yonder - Softcover

Halpern, Julie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312653077 ISBN 13: 9780312653071

Publisher: Square Fish, 2011

Synopsis

Into the Wild Nerd Yonder Things are changing fast for high school sophomore Jessie, and she needs new friends. Her quest is a hilarious tour through high school clique-dom, with a surprising stop along the way--the Dungeons & Dragons crowd, who outnerd everybody.

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Review:

"The relationships and dialogue ring true; readers navigating the stratified social structures of high school will relish an ending that celebrates true friendship." --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"Readers will both identify with and like Jessie and will cheer her conversion from meek to outspoken." --Kirkus Reviews

"Reinvention is rarely so delightfully nerdy." --Booklist

"This novel is particularly strong in showing how teen friendships evolve and sometimes die away, and how adolescents redefine themselves." --School Library Journal

"Witty" --Horn Book Review

." . . funny, easygoing prose . . . an appealingly comic cousin of Carolyn Mackler's The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things." --Kirkus on Get Well Soon

"I completely fell in love with Anna Bloom's voice--it's wry, romantic, and so, so true." --Gabrielle Zevin, author of Elsewhere on Get Well Soon

"Engaging . . . real . . . refreshing, and natural, and the descriptions of the situations are hilarious!" --TeenReads.com on Get Well Soon

"This book is hilarious, refreshing, honest and AWESOME!" --Elise, age 14 on Get Well Soon

"Witty, sarcastic, and drop-dead hilarious . . . this book made me laugh the most out of any book I have EVER read." --Jason, age 14 on Get Well Soon

About the Author:

Julie Halpern is the author of Get Well Soon and Don't Stop Now, as well as the picture book Toby and the Snowflakes. In addition to writing, Julie is a middle-school librarian. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, lived in Australia for six months, and created a couple of zines before she started writing books, and realized she was and always has been a writer. She is married to the artist Matthew Cordell, and they live outside Chicago with their daughter and gloriously large Siamese cat, Tobin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Square Fish
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0312653077
• ISBN 13: 9780312653071
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272