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Pretty by Justin Sayre
Coming-of-age never looked so beautiful. - Kirkus (Starred Review)A] powerful story of growth and change, brimming with honesty and hope. - Publishers Weekly
Students who might not yet be ready for Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give will find an equally compelling narrator and story in Pretty. - VOYA Reviews
Sophie's perspective on what being pretty really means changes drastically in the second adjective-busting novel by the author of Husky, Justin Sayre. Sayre details the private and public life of a thirteen-year-old burdened with far more than the middle-school adjective of Pretty. Though she appears confident, stylish, and easygoing at school, Sophie lives a nightmare at home. When her mother's alcohol addiction spirals out of control, Sophie's Auntie Amara steps in to help. She teaches Sophie new lessons about her family and heritage, while also challenging her to rethink how she feels about friends, boys, and even her sense of place in the Brooklyn neighborhood where she lives. Sayre, a master storyteller in the coming-of-age genre, asks readers to confront superficial assumptions about gender and beauty, and breathes new life into the canon of middle-grade realistic fiction.
Justin Elizabeth Sayre is a playwright and performer who Michael Musto called, Oscar Wilde meets Whoopi Goldberg. Sayre is a fixture of the Downtown Cabaret Scene in New York, first with their long-running monthly show, The Meeting of the International Order of Sodomites at Joe's Pub/The Public Theatre. Their show, The GAyBC's, a five-part series on which this book is based also ran at Joe's Pub. Sayre has written a series of YA Novels, Husky, Pretty, and , Mean, released by Penguin Books. Sayre has also written for Television, working with Michael Patrick King on his Hit CBS comedy, 2 Broke Girls and most recently on Fox's The Cool Kids. Sayre also appeared on HBO's The Comeback with Lisa Kudrow. They live in a world of their own and have been blocked on Twitter by Meghan McCain
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780448484174 |
| ISBN 10 | 044848417X |
| Title | Pretty |
| Author | Justin Sayre |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2017-07-04 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |