Farm Girl, Skunk Girl, Haystack Girl, Goat Girl…you pick the name
and fourteen-year-old Janie has heard it.
She thought it would be cool to live on a farm, but once she gets to
high school, it’s definitely NOT cool!
It doesn’t help that her friends from middle school are all spread out
and she doesn’t know anyone in her lunch period. At least she has one class with her best
friend, Sarah, and they get to do a project on a great woman in history. This leads Janie and Sarah to a local lady
who taught blacks how to read and write during the Civil Rights Movement. Janie learns just what it means to live big.
This is very much a coming of age novel about Janie figuring out who
she is and what she stands for. It would
be appropriate for middle school readers as there’s no foul language, drug use,
sexual encounters, etc.
Themes: friendship,
discovery, standing up for what’s right
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