This meme is hosted by Breaking the Spine and is meant to highlight some great pre-publication books we all can't wait to get our grubby little mitts on. 
For me, I can't wait to read: In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard. The book is being released by Little, Brown on April 25, 2011 coincidentally my son's 14th birthday.Amazon says this about the book: The beguiling fourteen-year-old narrator of IN ZANESVILLE is a late bloomer. She is used to flying under the radar-a sidekick, a third wheel, a marching band dropout, a disastrous babysitter, the kind of girl whose Eureka moment is the discovery that "fudge" can't be said with an English accent.
Luckily, she has a best friend, a similarly undiscovered girl with whom she shares the everyday adventures of a 1970s American girlhood, incidents through which a world is revealed, and character is forged.
In time, their friendship is tested-- by their families' claims on them, by a clique of popular girls who stumble upon them as if they were found objects, and by the first, startling, subversive intimations of womanhood.
With dry wit and piercing observation, Jo Ann Beard shows us that in the seemingly quiet streets of America's innumerable Zanesvilles is a world of wonders, and that within the souls of the awkward and the overlooked often burns something radiant and unforgettable.
Sounds interesting.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds really interesting. I've been having good luck with younger narrators lately.
ReplyDeleteThis book sounds like something that I need to read. I'm glad that you featured it as your WoW because I might not have come across it otherwise. I'll be adding it to my wish list (aka my to be purchased list).
ReplyDeleteSounds interesting, I'll have to check it out
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