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Eleven was big. Winnie got a new best friend, and a new worst friend. But twelve is going to be huge. Last year everyone else changed, but now it’s Winnie’s turn to “develop.” Ack! Twelve is going to be a big year for Winnie, she just knows it. After all, she’s one step closer to being a... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
- - Twelve year old Winnie starts to go through puberty.
Summary edit
Winnie is excited to turn twelve, graduate elementary school, and move on to middle school. The things she’s not too excited about are all the changes that come with growing up. With her mom, her older sister, and two amazing friends, she is pretty sure she is going to be just fine. Over the... read more
Characters/People edit
- Winnie: A twelve year old, fun- loving girl who has a huge crush on 8th grader, Lars. Experiences the dilemmas of a coming-of-age tween-ager
- Dinah: Winnie's best friend who is a little chubby but she's not afraid to embrace it and she always has a kind heart.
- Sandra: Winnie's older sister who is "too cool to care", but really looks after Winnie.
- Amanda: Winnie's ex-best friend. Amanda still hangs around Winnie, but only when the "popular" girls arent around.
- Ty: Winnie's little brother.
- Lars: The guy who Winnie has a crush on but he is a year older then her.
- Gail Grayson: The mean girl at Winnie's school.
- Bo: Sandra's boyfriend.
- Mrs. Perry: Winnie, Ty, and Sandra's mom.
- Mr. Perry: Winnie, Ty, and Sandra's dad.
- Mrs. Grayson: Gail's mom.
- Taffy: A girl in Ty's class. No one really likes her, but Winnie encourages Ty to talk to her.
- Cinnamon: Winnie's new friend she meet in PE.
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“Care Bears? On a bra? She had to be joking. But no, they were, marching across the elastic band with their lollipops and rainbows. How old did she think I was-two?”
Winnie
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Earlobes popping off, innocent bystanders getting killed in the blink of an eye—in Mom Land there was disaster lurking around every corner.
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“We are like the fire,” Amy said. “Alone, we’re nothing, just random pieces of wood. But together, we burn bright and strong.”
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One last glorious free-for-all, like those funny square hats thrown into the sky. Only we were the ones flung topsy-turvy, not knowing where we would land.
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They grew and they grew and they never stopped, they grew and they grew till the darn things popped!
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This was what was real, this moment right now, even though it had a feeling of unrealness. We were on the verge of something big. It was coming whether we wanted it to or not.
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“Yep,” I said brazenly. “On the outside I’m a devil, but on the inside I’m all angel.”
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To make a Camp Winding Gap Special, you spread peanut butter on a piece of bread, then sprinkled on a spoonful of sugar, then squeezed a lemon over the whole thing. Mmm-mmm.
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We’re going to melt candles onto them and float them down the river. It’s so pretty.”
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I’d learned a lot that way, actually. Like in Wifey, when the husband took pictures of his wife in her negligee, because being pregnant made her boobs turn huge. That was very enlightening. And then the wife went on to have all these affairs,
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“Silently flows the river to the sea, and the barges, too, go silently. Barges, I would like to go with you, I would like to sail the ocean blue. ”
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First Sentence edit
THE THING ABOUT BIRTHDAYS, especially if you just that very day turned twelve, is that you should make a point of trying to look good.
Table of Contents edit
Chapter 1... March
Chapter 2...April
Chapter3... May
Chapter 4... June
Chapter 5... July
Chapter 6... August
Chapter 7... September
Chapter 8... October
Chapter 9... November
Chapter 10... December
Chapter 11... January
Chapter 12... February
Chapter 13... March
Series & Lists edit
This is book 3 of 5 in The Winnie Years. (standard series)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Lauren Myracle (Author)
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