The Complete History of Why I Hate Her
By (Author) Jennifer Richard Jacobson
Simon & Schuster
Aladdin Paperbacks
27th April 2010
United States
Young Adult
Fiction
FIC
Hardback
192
Width 140mm, Height 210mm, Spine 20mm
286g
Nola wants nothing more than a summer on her own--and a job at an upscale Maine coast resort sounds ideal. Waitressing three meals a day, but lots of beach time in between, some freedom from her big-sister role to Song, who is undergoing chemo back home in Massachusetts, the chance to make some friends. Enter Carly, the perfect pal, full of jokes, ideas, energyand experienced at being away from her mysterious family. But Carly is much more complicated than the usual summer buddya border-line personality who can turn on Nola in a flash, who can make love a rivalry, something that, even at a distance, Song becomes ensnared in. Here is a dramatic look at a girl/girl teen dynamic. To say nothing of boys.
Jennifer Richard Jacobsongrew up in a family of storytellers. My brothers, she says, had the ability to make us laugh until our bellies hurt. I wasnt as hilarious, but I learned how to take the mishaps in life (especially the embarrassments) and turn them into a dramatic story. Jennifer is the author of the middle grade novels Paper Things and Small as an Elephant, and the Andy Shane picture book series. She lives in Maine with her husband and Jack Russell terrier.