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* '''Author''': [[ArLynn Presser]] | * '''Author''': [[ArLynn Presser]] | ||
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* '''Year''': 1995 | * '''Year''': 1995 | ||
* '''Editor''': [[Elise Donner]] | * '''Editor''': [[Elise Donner]] | ||
* '''Amazon Listing''' : [] | * '''Amazon Listing''' : [] | ||
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| + | == Book Description == | ||
| + | Garnet Brown is seventeen years old, has a great mother, a boyfriend Andy, and a cute tutor Grant who is undeniably geeky but somehow still charming and attractive. Her life plan revolves around getting into a good college and getting out of the poor neighborhood sheís lived in her whole life. The one where sheís mostly known as the child of an illicit affair that cost her mother her job and reputation and that left Garnet seeing her father only every few years, in court, where her parents would argue about money. So, when her well-to-do father comes to call, asking her to come visit and meet the family: the wife, the older half-brother and the younger half-brother they had after he went back to his wife, there has to be a might big string attached. Like a son with cancer and a last-chance hope that Garnet can be a bone-marrow donor. Life hasnít ever been easy but itís suddenly gotten way harder and a surprising kiss from Grant turns everything on its head even more than suddenly having a father in her life. The choices are surprising, confusing and surprisingly romantic. | ||
== Awards == | == Awards == | ||
* [[1995 RITA® Winners & Finalists|1995 RITA®]] for [[RITA®: Young Adult Romance Category|Young Adult Romance]] | * [[1995 RITA® Winners & Finalists|1995 RITA®]] for [[RITA®: Young Adult Romance Category|Young Adult Romance]] | ||
Latest revision as of 00:09, 11 November 2022
to be deleted duplicate record
- Author: ArLynn Presser
- Publisher: Kensington Z*Fave
- Year: 1995
- Editor: Elise Donner
- Amazon Listing : []
Book Description
Garnet Brown is seventeen years old, has a great mother, a boyfriend Andy, and a cute tutor Grant who is undeniably geeky but somehow still charming and attractive. Her life plan revolves around getting into a good college and getting out of the poor neighborhood sheís lived in her whole life. The one where sheís mostly known as the child of an illicit affair that cost her mother her job and reputation and that left Garnet seeing her father only every few years, in court, where her parents would argue about money. So, when her well-to-do father comes to call, asking her to come visit and meet the family: the wife, the older half-brother and the younger half-brother they had after he went back to his wife, there has to be a might big string attached. Like a son with cancer and a last-chance hope that Garnet can be a bone-marrow donor. Life hasnít ever been easy but itís suddenly gotten way harder and a surprising kiss from Grant turns everything on its head even more than suddenly having a father in her life. The choices are surprising, confusing and surprisingly romantic.
