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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... read more
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Janie Gorman is a fourteen year old freshman and wants nothing more to be "normal." The problem is, that is proving to be next to impossible. She’s forced to live on her parents’ modern-hippy self-sustaining goat farm. She has to milk goats every day and endure her mother’s bloggin about her... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters/People edit
- Sarah: Janie's best friend. She has a huge crush on Jeremy and wants to make all chocolate fair-trade. Obsessed with politics and changing the world.
- Emma Goldman: Sarah's older sister, who Sarah and Janie idolize.
- Hazel Pritchard: Mr. Pritchard's dead wife, a civil rights activist who taught people to read and write.
- Mrs. Brown: Hazel's best friend and also a civil rights activist.
- Jeremy Fitch: Sarah's Jam Band crush.
- Janie Gorman: The narrator of the story. She feels like she is 'ten miles past normal' because of her life on a goat farm, and later joins Jam Band.
- Avery: Janie's peppy eight-year-old sister.
- Loretta Lynn: Janie's goat.
- Janie: She is the girl who tries to fit in at school. Her best friend has a different lunch then she does. SG
- Todd: Emma's boyfriend, who Mr. Lyman immensely disapproves of.
- Sarah: She is Janie's best friend.
- Ms. Ashdown: Add a description of this character.
- Verbena: Janie's lunch friend, who enjoys drawing tattoos on her arms with Sharpies. Very Unique.
- Ms. Morrison
- Mrs. Lyman: Sarah's mother. Very conservative
- Stoner Guy
- Mrs. Redfearn
- Harlan: Hazel's husband.
- Monster Monroe: Teaches Janie how to play the bass.
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Marc Roberts
- Geraldine Ferraro
- Wallace
- Patsy Cline
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First Sentence edit
No one can figure out where the terrible smell is coming from, but everyone on the bus this morning can smell it and has an opinion.
Table of Contents edit
Chapter 1. More Tales of the Amazing Farm Girl
Chapter 2. A Brief History of How I Ruined My Own Life
Chapter 3. Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch...
Chapter 4. The Bus Ride of Doom
Chapter 5. Lemmingville
Chapter 6. Lunch Break
Chapter 7. In Which Life Imitates Robert Rauschenberg
Chapter 8. It's For a Good Cause
Chapter 9. Jeremy Fitch: An Overview
Chapter 10. The Ladies' Sewing Circle and Anarchist Cookbook Society
Chapter 11. A Night in the Suburbs
Chapter 12. The Rock 'n' Roll Diaries: An Afterschool Special
Chapter 13. Future Shock
Chapter 14. In Which My Mother Totally Loses It Once and for All
Chapter 15. The Awful Truth About Jeremy Fitch
Chapter 16. Freedom Riders
Chapter 17. The Girl With the Lizard Tattoo
Chapter 18. Night of the Living Accordions
Chapter 19. How to Make an American Quilt
Chapter 20. The Good Old Boy Blues
Chapter 21. Busted
Chapter 22. The Jailhouse Blues
Chapter 23. Loretta Lynn: A Love Story
Chapter 24. Field of Dreams
Authors & Contributors edit
- Frances O'Roark Dowell (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4169-9585-2
Page Count: 211
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4169-9585-2
Page Count: 211
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