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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0066237564
ISBN-13: 9780066237565
May 2002
Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens
266 pages
Grade:
From 7 to 9
Edition: 1
Language: English |
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Synopsis
High school junior Ursula Riggs, a self-proclaimed "Ugly Girl," forges an uneasy friendship with Matt Donaghy, a classmate whose joke about blowing up the school is taken very seriously and causes him to be labeled a suspected terrorist. Although Matt is eventually exonerated, he is treated like a pariah at school--a situation that causes his parents to file a lawsuit and Matt to attempt suicide. Although Ursula manages to save Matt, they both discover that she needs his help and support in return. This story is told, in alternating chapters, from both characters' perspectives., 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.
| Size | | Length: | 266 pages | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 12.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Oates effectively evokes the culture of high school, where association is everything and rumor almost always preferable to truth....Honest and penetrating."
Kirkus Reviews (04/15/2002)
"This is a compelling story, balancing its exploration of the terrible price self-congratulatory vigilance can exact with a depiction of the strength people may surprise themselves by finding in one another."
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books - Deborah Stevenson (06/01/2002)
"In vivid, quick-witted prose bursting with colloquialisms and arrow-true dialogue, BIG MOUTH & UGLY GIRL is a divinely readable novel, one of the finest and most provocative in any genre of late. Deftly juxtaposing the pangs of adolescence, the commonness of betrayal and the dearness of loyalty, the insidious nature of bigotry and myopia, and the redemptive necessity of genuine connection, Oates has crafted a work for young adults as deserving of acclaim as any of her adult fiction."
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