Shug
By Jenny Han
(Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, Hardcover, 9781416909422, 256pp.)
Publication Date: April 25, 2006
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback
Categories: Social Issues - Adolescence
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SHUG
is clever and brave and true (on the inside, anyway). And she's about to become your new best friend.
Annemarie Wilcox, or Shug as her family calls her, is beginning to think there's nothing worse than being twelve. She's too tall, too freckled, and way too flat-chested. Shug is sure that there's not one good or amazing thing about her. And now she has to start junior high, where the friends she counts most dear aren't acting so dear anymore -- especially Mark, the boy she's known her whole life through. Life is growing up all around her, and all Shug wants is for things to be like they used to be. How is a person supposed to prepare for what happens tomorrow when there's just no figuring out today?
Jenny Han is the author of Shug, The Summer I Turned Pretty, It’s Not Summer Without You, and We’ll Always Have Summer. She is also the author of the chapter book Clara Lee and The Apple Pie Dream. A former children’s bookseller, she earned her MFA in creative writing at the New School. She currently works as a YA librarian at a private school on the Upper West Side. She can be found online at www.dearjennyhan.com.
"A great read."
-- Sarah Dessen
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