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"Hilarious" — New York Times
Teen Genius (and Hermit) Carrie Pilby's To-Do List:
1. List 10 things you love (and do them!)
2. Join a club (and talk to people!)
3. Go on a date (with someone you actually like!)
4. Tell someone you care (your therapist doesn't count!)
5. Celebrate New Year's (with other people!)
Seriously? Carrie would rather stay in bed than deal with the immoral, sex-obsessed hypocrites who seem to overrun her hometown, New York City. She's sick of trying to be like everybody else. She isn't! But when her own therapist gives her a five-point plan to change her social-outcast status, Carrie takes a hard look at herself—and agrees to try.
Suddenly the world doesn't seem so bad. But is prodigy Carrie willing to dumb things down just to fit in?
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Release date
July 1, 2010 -
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781426859960
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781426859960
- File size: 488 KB
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 4.5
- Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
- Text Difficulty: 3
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Reviews
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November 1, 2010
Gr 9 Up-Carrie Pilby was a child prodigy. She skipped three grades but never learned how to make friends. Her father told her she'd find like-minded people in college, specifically Harvard. She refers to this as his "Big Lie." She graduates at 19, moves back to NYC, and still has no one. She can't find anyone morally and intellectually acceptable. Her therapist gives her homework: identify things she loves and do them, go on a date, go to a New Year's Eve party, join a club. So begins her journey toward acceptance of others and herself. Carrie is so thoughtful, inquisitive, and philosophically self-searching that readers will believe she's a genius. Her observations of New York and New Yorkers alone could fill a very interesting book. Though the narrative is almost completely inside Carrie's head, her introspection never crosses into navel-gazing. Her thoughts are never boring, even when she's thinking about math. Carrie Pilby is a page-turner, and the will she or won't she find love and understanding moves the deceptively uneventful plot. Even as she fails and fails, Carrie's efforts to integrate bring the mood of the novel slowly out of quiet darkness to buoyant light. Her struggle for acceptance is so universally teenage, smart girls (and women) will pull for her to the end.-Johanna Lewis, New York Public Library
Copyright 2010 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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