Homeschooled by her counterculture mother, Evie decides to spend
her senior year in public school, where she experiences first
friendship, first love-and first encounters with the complexities
of authority and responsibility.
Evie is different. Not just her upbringing-though that's certainly
been unusual-but also her mindset. She's smart, independent,
confident, opinionated, and ready to take on a new challenge- The
Institution of School.
It doesn't take this homeschooled kid long to discover that high
school is a whole new world, and not in the way she expected. It's
also a social minefield, and Evie finds herself confronting new
problems at every turn. Not one to sit idly by, Evie sets out to
make changes. Big changes. The movement she starts takes off, but
when her plan begins spiraling out of control, Evie is forced to
come to terms with a world she is only just beginning to
comprehend.
J. J. Johnson's powerful debut novel will enthrall readers as it
challenges assumptions about friendship, rules, boundaries, and
power.
"Johnson's fun, activist-minded debut has a close cousin in Jamila
Stevenson's The Latte Rebellion (2010). Evie is a strong yet
vulnerable heroine whose intellectual bent and sense of self will
remind readers that, as historian Laurel Thatcher Urlich said,
'Well-behaved women rarely make history.'"
"Readers will never look at high school - or life - the same."
"Smart first novel...Johnson reveals a broad spectrum of
perspectives through her characters' differing sentiments,
motivations, and opinions"
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