Big Mouth Ugly Girl

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : HarperTeen
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0066237564

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Big Mouth & Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates Pdf

Matt Donaghy has always been a BIG MOUTH but it's never gotten him in trouble - until one day when two detectives escort him out of class for questioning. Matt has been accused of threatening to blow up Rocky River High School. Ursula Riggs has always been an UGLY GIRL A loner with fierce, staring eyes, Ursula has no time for petty high school stuff like friends and dating - or at least that's what she tells herself. Ursula is content with minding her own business. And she doesn't even really know Matt Donaghy. But Ursula is the only person who knows what Matt really said that day . . . and she is the only one who can help him. In her first novel for young adults, acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates has created a provocative and unflinching story of friendship and family, and of loyalty and betrayal.

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : HarperTeen
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015056220711

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Big Mouth & Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates Pdf

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Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780061756221

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Big Mouth & Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates Pdf

Big Mouth No I did not. I did not, I did not. I did not say those things, and I did not plan those things. Won't It anyone believe me? Ugly Girl All right, Ugly Girl made a mistake. I'd told my mom what I'd heard in the cafeteria, and she'd told Dad. Evidently. I'd thought for sure they would want me to speak up for the truth.

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0606277986

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Big Mouth & Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates Pdf

When sixteen-year-old Matt is falsely accused of threatening to blow up his high school and his friends turn against him, an unlikely classmate comes to his aid.

Author : Bryn Greenwood
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466885806

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All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood Pdf

- A New York Times and USA Today bestseller - Book of the Month Club 2016 Book of the Year - Second Place Goodreads Best Fiction of 2016 A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives. As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold. By the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery. When tragedy rips Wavy's family apart, a well-meaning aunt steps in, and what is beautiful to Wavy looks ugly under the scrutiny of the outside world. A powerful novel you won’t soon forget, Bryn Greenwood's All the Ugly and Wonderful Things challenges all we know and believe about love. 31 Books Bringing the Heat this Summer —Bustle Top Ten Hottest Reads of 2016 —New York Daily News Best Books of 2016 —St. Louis Post Dispatch

Author : Lindsay Hunter
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374710125

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Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter Pdf

Perry and Baby Girl are best friends, though you wouldn't know it if you met them. Their friendship is woven from the threads of never-ending dares and power struggles, their loyalty fierce but incredibly fraught. They spend their nights sneaking out of their trailers, stealing cars for joyrides, and doing all they can to appear hard to the outside world.With all their energy focused on deceiving themselves and the people around them, they don't know that real danger lurks: Jamey, an alleged high school student from a nearby town, has been pining after Perry from behind the computer screen in his mother's trailer for some time now, following Perry and Baby Girl's every move—on Facebook, via instant messaging and text,and, unbeknownst to the girls, in person. When Perry and Baby Girl finally agree to meet Jamey face-to-face, they quickly realize he's far from the shy high school boy they thought he was, and they'll do whatever is necessary to protect themselves. Lindsay Hunter's stories have been called "mesmerizing. . . visceral . . . exquisite" (Chicago Tribune), and in Ugly Girls she calls on all her faculties as a wholly original storyteller to deliver the most searing, poignant, powerful debut novel in years.

Author : Robert Hoge
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780143198574

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Ugly by Robert Hoge Pdf

Robert Hoge has done pretty much every kind of writing there is. He has worked as a journalist, a speechwriter, a science writer, and a political advisor. He's also written numerous short stories, articles, and interviews that have been published in Australia and overseas. When he's not writing, Robert enjoys photography and talking with people about looking different and being disabled. He lives in Brisbane, Australia and is married and has two amazing daughters. Visit him at RobertHoge.com and follow him @RobertHoge.

Author : Susan Dunning Power
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011971012

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The Ugly-girl Papers, Or, Hints for the Toilet by Susan Dunning Power Pdf

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Paw Prints
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1439559554

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After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away by Joyce Carol Oates Pdf

Blaming herself for the car accident on the Tappan Zee Bridge that killed her mother, fifteen-year-old Jenna undergoes a difficult physical and emotional recovery.

Author : Alexander Sim
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3656500096

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Oates, Joyce Carol - Big Mouth Ugly Girl - Summary by Alexander Sim Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English - Literature, Works, language: English, abstract: Eine tabellarische Zusammenfassung von Joyce Carol Oates "Big mouth ugly girl" mit Kommentar auf Englisch. Kapitelweise strukturiert nach den Fragen: Wer?, Wo?, Wann?, Was?.

Author : Alice Hoffman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0439256364

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Indigo by Alice Hoffman Pdf

When her mother dies and her father remarries, Martha is so unhappy living in the dried-up town of Oak Grove, that she convinces two unusual brothers who long to return to the ocean to run away with her.

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101213131

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We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates Pdf

An Oprah Book Club® selection A New York Times Notable Book The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet. But something happens on Valentine’s Day, 1976—an incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home—that rends the fabric of their family life...with tragic consequences. Years later, the youngest son attempts to piece together the fragments of the Mulvaneys’ former glory, seeking to uncover and understand the secret violation that brought about the family’s tragic downfall. Profoundly cathartic, this extraordinary novel unfolds as if Oates, in plumbing the darkness of the human spirit, has come upon a source of light at its core. Moving away from the dark tone of her more recent masterpieces, Joyce Carol Oates turns the tale of a family struggling to cope with its fall from grace into a deeply moving and unforgettable account of the vigor of hope and the power of love to prevail over suffering. “It’s the novel closest to my heart....I’m deeply moved that Oprah Winfrey has selected this novel for Oprah’s Book Club, a family novel presented to Oprah’s vast American family.”—Joyce Carol Oates

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593182741

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Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates Pdf

New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates’s strongest and most unsparing novel yet—an always engrossing, often shocking evocation of female rage, gallantry, and grit. The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls join a gang dedicated to pride, power, and vengeance on a world that seems made to denigrate and destroy them. Here is the secret history of a sisterhood of blood, a haven from a world of male oppressors, marked by a liberating fury that burns too hot to last. Above all, it is the story of Legs Sadovsky, with her lean, on-the-edge, icy beauty, whose nerve, muscle, hate, and hurt make her the spark of Foxfire: its guiding spirit, its burning core. At once brutal and lyrical, this is a careening joyride of a novel—charged with outlaw energy and lit by intense emotion. Amid scenes of violence and vengeance lies this novel’s greatest power: the exquisite, astonishing rendering of the bonds that link the Foxfire girls together. Foxfire reaffirms Joyce Carol Oates’s place at the very summit of American writing.

Author : Gregory Maguire
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061762598

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Confessions Of An Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire Pdf

Is this new land a place where magics really happen? From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale. In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings.... When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats.... We all have heard the story of Cinderella, the beautiful child cast out to slave among the ashes. But what of her stepsisters, the homely pair exiled into ignominy by the fame of their lovely sibling? What fate befell those untouched by beauty . . . and what curses accompanied Cinderella's exquisite looks? Extreme beauty is an affliction Set against the rich backdrop of seventeenth-century Holland, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister tells the story of Iris, an unlikely heroine who finds herself swept from the lowly streets of Haarlem to a strange world of wealth, artifice, and ambition. Iris's path quickly becomes intertwined with that of Clara, the mysterious and unnaturally beautiful girl destined to become her sister. Clara was the prettiest child, but was her life the prettiest tale? While Clara retreats to the cinders of the family hearth, burning all memories of her past, Iris seeks out the shadowy secrets of her new household--and the treacherous truth of her former life. God and Satan snarling at each other like dogs.... Imps and fairy godmotbers trying to undo each other's work. How we try to pin the world between opposite extremes! Far more than a mere fairy-tale, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister is a novel of beauty and betrayal, illusion and understanding, reminding us that deception can be unearthed--and love unveiled--in the most unexpected of places.

Author : Caroline Mackenzie
Publisher : 37 Ink
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982128913

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One Year of Ugly by Caroline Mackenzie Pdf

A fun, fresh, timely debut novel about the uproarious adventures that befall the Palacio family during their disastrous illegal residence in Trinidad that poignantly captures the complexities of dysfunctional families and passionate (but sometimes messy) romance. After fleeing crumbling, volatile Venezuela, Yola Palacio wants nothing more than to settle into a peaceful new life in Trinidad with her family. And who cares if they’re there illegally—aren’t most of the people on the island? But life for the Palacios is far from quiet—and when Yola’s Aunt Celia dies, the family once again find their lives turned upside down. For Celia had been keeping a very big secret—she owed a LOT of money to a local criminal called Ugly. And without the funds to pay him off, Ugly has the entire family do his bidding until Celia’s debt is settled. What Ugly says, the Palacios do, otherwise the circumstances are too dreadful to imagine. To say that the year that follows is tumultuous for the Palacios is an understatement. But in the midst of the turmoil appears Roman—Ugly’s distractingly gorgeous right-hand man. And although she knows it’s terrible and quite possibly dangerous, Yola just can’t help but give in to the attraction. Where, though, do Roman’s loyalties lie? And could this wildly inappropriate romance just be the antidote to a terrible year of Ugly? Combining the spark of Imbolo Mbue with the irresistible wit of Maria Semple, One Year of Ugly brilliantly explores cross-cultural struggles and assimilation from a unique immigrant perspective and introduces us to an extraordinary new voice in contemporary fiction.