First-time novelist Jenny Han has penned a realistic story that all middle-graders will surely be able to relate to.
Meet 12-year-old Annemarie ?Shug? Wilcox. What?s not to like about her? She?s smart she?s tall and she has lots of freckles. She lives in a small Georgia town with her popular gorgeous older sister and intellectual mother. Shug is excited about starting the seventh-grade but she?s not prepared for all the vicious teasing that comes with the new school year.
?Han?s well-crafted first novel captures the aching hurt of exclusion in middle school and the acute pain of vicious teasing.?—Booklist
