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.
Thanks to Hachette Books I have 2 copies of In Zanesville to giveaway! This giveaway is open to US/Canada (no P.O. boxes) and will end at midnight CST on April 28, 2011.
Mandatory Entry: Just leave a comment with your email address.
Additional Entries: Follow my blog - just tell me how you do it - (up to 2 ways, good for 2 entries)
Twitter - leave me the link
Blog post - leave me the link
A total of five entries are available - please leave each entry in a separate comment.
Winners will be subject to the one copy per household rule, which means that if you win the same title in two or more contests, you will receive only one copy of the title in the mail.
Winners of all giveaways on Books and Needlepoint are chosen using Random.org.
Publisher/Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company, April 25, 2011
ISBN: 978-0316084475
304 pages
