<p>First-time novelist Jenny Han has penned a realistic story that all middle-graders will surely be able to relate to. </p><p>Meet 12-year-old Annemarie “Shug” Wilcox. What’s not to like about her? She’s smart she’s tall and she has lots of freckles. She lives in a small Georgia town with her popular gorgeous older sister and intellectual mother. Shug is excited about starting the seventh-grade but she’s not prepared for all the vicious teasing that comes with the new school year.</p><p> “Han’s well-crafted first novel captures the aching hurt of exclusion in middle school and the acute pain of vicious teasing.”—<i>Booklist</i></p>
