Zarr, Sara. Story of a Girl: New York, New York; Little, Brown and Company, 2007.Annotation: The story of one girl, Deanna Lambert, who struggles with those around her peering at her through a microscope of how imperfect she really is. Shouldn't these imperfections make her more beautiful for just living her own life in her small town?
Justification for Nomination: I was glad that someone picked this book for the Mock Printz nomination, I remember reading it earlier in the semester and was once again torn between two edgy books that are realistic in many factors. I think this book is good for girls to read and for boy to understand how girls can be more sensitive with their emotions. This book is easy for teens to relate to because many teens feel they are always being looked at from under a microscope not as an individual. The author of this story captures a teen girl's emotions well, while still sending the message that teens are being treated unfairly just for being a teen. Teens grow at different rates and this book shows that at coming of age is crucial for growing and succeeding as an adult. That no one is perfect and everyone has a right to make mistake in order to learn from them. I think a lot of the problems faced with Deanna are things that teens are being faced all the time. The pressures to have sex, being able to stand your parents who seem they rather ruin your life then allow you to make mistakes. This book does a good job at telling the realities of things as well as the consequences that can happen. The book I feel is inspiring to anyone trying to find a way out of being a teen. This book examined my own past and how I could have handled situations better.
Genre: Coming of age, edgy-problem, realistic, honor book, fiction.
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