Ten Miles Past Normal

by Frances O'Roark Dowell

Book Overview

Janie Gorman wants to be normal. The problem with that: she's not. She's smart and creative and a little bit funky. She's also an unwilling player in her parents' modern-hippy, let's-live-on-a-goat-farm experiment (regretfully, instigated by a younger, much more enthusiastic Janie). This, to put it simply, is not helping Janie reach that "normal target." She has to milk goats every day...and endure her mother's pseudo celebrity in the homemade-life,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416995854
• ISBN13: 9781416995852
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 12 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 10

Customer Reviews

Nostalgic for Me

It feels like the author wrote me when I was a teenager. In fact, the year this was published I was in 9th grade like Janie living out in the country with hardly any social life. This book reminded me of funny conversations I had with my one best friend and my own coming of age moment. I enjoyed the short, fun, and easy read. I'm weird like Janie; then and now lol