Viola in Reel Life (Viola #1)
When "one of the reigning queens of women's fiction" (USA Today) writes a young adult novel, the whole world should take notice. Author Adriana Trigiani has already won herself a worldwide reputation with her soulful Very Valentine and Big Stone Gap excursions, now she ventures into the...
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When "one of the reigning queens of women's fiction" (USA Today) writes a young adult novel, the whole world should take notice. Author Adriana Trigiani has already won herself a worldwide reputation with her soulful Very Valentine and Big Stone Gap excursions, now she ventures into the coming-of-age experiences of Viola, a nice Brooklyn girl who just wants to survive boarding school in the Midwest. Feisty teen fiction.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061451041 (0061451045)
ASIN: 61451045
Publish date: February 1st 2011
Publisher: HarperTeen
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Teen,
Paranormal,
Academic,
School,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Middle Grade,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Ghosts,
School Stories,
Boarding School
Series: Viola (#1)
Man, was this book boring. I found it ironic that during the part at the film festival, the book talks about needing emotions in art and how that one guy's piece on farming didn't win because it was so dry and unfeeling, because that is exactly how I found this book. Oh she hates her school? She lik...
Junior fiction: age 12-14I love everything by Trigiani. She could write about potatoes growing, and I would marvel at her way with words, This book didn't let me down.This story is about 14 year old Viola. When her parents have to go to Afghanistan for a year for a movie project, she's send to the P...
Viola is a fairly typical 14 year old girl who thinks her life has ended when her parents send her away from her home in New York to attend a boarding school in Indiana. She doesn't want to leave her friends or her family and she is convinced that she will hate every minute that she is away. The o...