(Summary from Goodreads)
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.
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.
6.5/10 Eh, I don't know...this wasn't a bad book, but I never really got into it. The beginning went slowly to me, but it got slightly better. Beard's writing style was good though, and I thought captured the mind of a fourteen-year-old pretty well.
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