The Summer of Sassy Jo

By J.P. Reading

Book Overview

Almost fourteen, Sara Jo tries to cope with her conflicting emotions when she goes to spend the summer with her mother, a reformed alcoholic who abandoned her when she was little. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395489504
• ISBN13: 9780395489505
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher

Customer Reviews

Every preadolescent female needs this

What a perfect book for teens to understand themselves. A main character that's worried about her weight, has to battle with a snobby best friend, flighty about boys, and doesn't know what's happening to her body. One for all females to read.

Grab this book before it goes out of print

It's pitiful that some of the best adolescent books of the 820s are going out of print. Not only is this a timeless tale of growing up with growing pains, love and feelings that over rule teenagers are in tune here.

Grab this book before it goes out of print

It's pitiful that some of the best adolescent books of the 80s are going out of print. Not only is this a timeless tale of growing up with growing pains, love and feelings that over rule teenagers are in tune here.

Wow!

I'm surprised that I found this book to be good for an adolescent female. Though this book is rather trite and simple, females will be able to relate to the obnoxiously conceited best friend, lover boy, and family situations. Fantastic! The cover was a dark maroonish pink, which isn't the worst cover I've seen, but it isn't the nicest either.

it's an great mother daugther story

I think that the story is very realistic on today issues.Having to cope with her acholoic mother,It gives people an chance to see throught the girsl point of veiw,and could help with acholic parents to see what their children are going throught.I think it's an good story for girl to read and in an way could be eduacational.