Product Details
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, April 2006
Hardcover, 256 pages
ISBN-10: 1416909427
ISBN-13: 9781416909422
Ages: 10 - 14
Grades: 5 - 9
Awards and Nominations
- ALA Best Books for Young Adults Nominee
- CCBC Choices (Cooperative Children's Book Council)
- Heartland Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature Master List (KS)
- Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Master List
- Rebecca Caudill Award Master List (IL)
- Texas Lone Star Reading List
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Description
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...
How did you come to write this book?
Shug began as a writing exercise in college. The class was called Writing for Children, and my teacher used to put a writing prompt up on the board. I was feeling particularly nostalgic for end of summer days and neighborhood boys.
"A great read."
-- Sarah Dessen
PublishersWeekly.com, May 11, 2009
...Jenny Hans debut novel, Shug, came out in 2006; her new novel, The Summer I Turned Pretty, was released earlier this week. In it, Isabel, aka Belly, spends the summer at the beach house with ...
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