Description: Cursed with the nickname "the Artichoke" after wearing an ill-chosen green jacket to school way back in sixth grade, Rosemary continues to cope with the cool kids' disdain by making food her friend. It's a treacherous ally, though, and when she tops 90kg, she decides to make radical changes and begins to lose some serious weight. Then, Rosemary discovers that an A-list girl wants to befriend her, the boy she adores returns her feelings, and (most incredible of all) her mother has cancer. Rosemary's wry first-person narration deftly portrays characters in her single-parent family, her high school, her mother's beauty salon, and her Tennessee town. Jolted by fears of losing her mother, Rosemary begins to look beyond her previous preoccupations to see other people's vulnerabilities as well as their more evident flaws. In her first novel, Supplee brings a cast of original characters to life in this convincing and consistently entertaining narrative. Grades 7-10. --Carolyn Phelan --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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EAN: 9780142414279
UPC: 9780142414279
ISBN: 9780142414279
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Item Length: 20.9 cm
Book Title: Artichoke's Heart
Item Height: 211mm
Item Width: 140mm
Author: Suzanne Supplee
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Friendship, Family Life, Self-Esteem
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Publication Year: 2009
Genre: Children & Young Adults
Item Weight: 263g
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
