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Big mouth & ugly girl

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Hard-hitting, page-turning and celebratory of friendship in unlikely circumstances, Joyce Carol Oates' sure touch with small town life hits home in her first young adult novel. Matt Donaghy is the class joker, and Ursula Riggs is the misfit loner.

Neither knows the other. But when Matt is suddenly arrested on a charge of threatening to blow up the school and massacre the students, Ursula is the only one who sees through the hysteria and hypocrisy, and corroborates Matt's story. The case is dropped, but Matt's old friends avoid him, and his teachers treat him with kid gloves.

Even Ursula, apparently his only friend during the crisis, can't meet his eye.

But Ursula can't remain aloof when she catches Matt contemplating suicide -- and a strange friendship is born.

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HarperCollins
000714573X / 9780007145737
Paperback / softback
813.54
06/05/2003
United Kingdom
English
272 p.
20 cm
teenage Learn More
Quiz No: 206665, Points 8.00, Book Level 5.10,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More
Originally published: New York: HarperTempest, 2002.
Joyce Carol Oates has twice been nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature. She has won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Pen/Faulkner Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Joyce Carol Oates has twice been nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature. She has won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Pen/Faulkner Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. 5AN Interest age: from c 12 years, YFM Romance & relationships stories (Children's / Teenage), YFS School stories (Children's / Teenage)