Shug
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...
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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...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781416909439 (1416909435)
Publish date: October 23rd 2007
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Teen,
Realistic Fiction,
Juvenile,
Romance,
Middle Grade,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
Seriously, do 12 year-old girls talk about being a femme fatale? a temptress? or of having a sexual relationship with someone? At that age? Aisht. Jinjja?And what's with naming her Shug because of Shug Avery? As far as I know, The Color Purple isn't something that I would recommend for teens to read...
This was such a fun and adorable read. When I first picked this book I had my doubts, but this book was funny, imaginative and totally original. I got so absorbed into Shug's life, that I read through the book so quickly and it just left me wanting more. I hope theres a sequel!
I want to marry Jenny Han and have her babies...so that I might imprison them and force them to write for me. I just love everything she's written. Her female protagonists, I mean. Look, my mom never had a drinking problem, I never tutored anyone, I'm not southern, I never have fallen in love wit...