Jailbait
by Lesléa Newman
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In 1971, unpopular and lonely tenth-grader Andi--teased at her Long Island high school for her large breasts and ignored at home by her distant parents--builds a fantasy romantic life around her clandestine, sexual relationship with a man in his thirties.
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Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Parent and child, Emotional problems, High schools, Schools, Self-esteem, Sex, Large-breasted women, Children's fiction, Long island (n.y.), fiction, Schools, fiction, Parent and child, fiction, Self-esteem, fiction, collectionID:ConroeChallenge, collectionID:bannedbooksPlaces
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Andrea Robin Kaplan is a clique unto herself. In other words, she has no friends. Her only goal is get through high school with the least amount of humiliation possible, which should be easy-- nothing ever happens in the suburbs, right? Wrong. One day, as Andi walks home from school, a little brown VW drives up and she meets Frank. Frank makes her feel beautiful and special. With Frank, Andi forgets how alone she is.From boundary breaking author Leslea Newman comes a haunting story about a girl who is all alone, and a man old enough to know better.From the Hardcover edition.
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