Ashley has enough problems in her life already, starting with the complexities of her crowded but loving working class family -- her extremely pregnant mother and her three exuberant and prom-crazy aunts, and her cab-driving father and three younger brothers, who think nothing of happily trashing the kitchen in a game of hot dog baseball. Then there’s Mr. Gilroy, the evil vice principal of discipline, who has Ashley on endless detention, her awful job at EZ-CHEEZ-E, where she has trouble seeing the customers through the eyeholes of her rat costume, and her good-looking but lowlife boyfriend TJ, who wants her to join him in a future as depressing as the dank one-room apartment he has so proudly rented for them. Not to speak of Nat’s loony grandmother, who wears her red bathing cap even when she’s not doing the backstroke in a wading pool, babbles at Ashley in Russian, and spits on the floor to show her disapproval. But in the end it’s grandma with her skill at baking (pastries to bribe the custodians) and sewing (a magical prom dress) who saves both the prom and Ashley’s belief in herself and her future in this delightful and heartfelt novel.
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Laurie Halse Anderson
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON (madwomanintheforest.com) é a aclamada autora de inúmeros livros para jovens e de uma série de 12 volumes para o ensino fundamental. Mundialmente conhecida por Fale!, um dos romances juvenis mais importantes publicados na última década, adotado pelas mais conceituadas escolas dos Estados Unidos e escolhido pela Associação Americana de Bibliotecas (ALA) como leitura fundamental. Mora com a família em Nova York. Não deixe de visitar o site da autora, lá estão todas as informações sobre o livro e sua literatura, a playlist de Fale!, vídeos, biografia completa, links úteis para professores, notícias atualizadas e muito mais.
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