Stan is an intense sixteen-year-old loner who desperately wants to make the junior varsity basketball team. And it seems that he may be about to do so, until he s blindsided by the unexpected attentions of Janine Igwash. Suddenly Stan is no longer thinking about jump shots. Instead he is obsessed with Janine s spiky hair, her milky white shoulders, and the mysterious little tattoo at the base of her neck, not to mention the heat of her breath, her dark eyes, wide hips and . . .
Sometimes Stan s imagination runs so wild he wonders whether he might be going crazy. That would be par for the course given his home life. His mother is dating the feckless Gary, and his little sister designated gifted, but a holy terror is acting out. Then Stan s father arrives on the scene with Stan s four-year-old half brother, and things become truly insane.
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Product Description:
Stan, an intense sixteen-year-old loner, tries to navigate his teenage years, which are made even more difficult when his father arrives on the scene with Stan's four-year-old half-brother.
Review:
"Stan found himself flipping through the book, past cell division, past photosynthesis, past the organs of digestion . . . to the human reproductive system.
"The page just fell open: The Female Reproductive Organs. They were fantastical shapes in yellow, pink, orange, blue. Like flowers and gourds stuck up inside shadowy female flesh. It was a brand new book so no previous student had had time to scribble foolishness on the pictures."
-- from the book
"A tender, funny, and insightful coming-of-age story."
The Horn Book Magazine"
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- PublisherGroundwood Books
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1554981107
- ISBN 13 9781554981106
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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