| Life Is Funny Contributor(s): Frank, E. R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0142300837 ISBN-13: 9780142300831 Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2002 Annotation: From the outside they're just a group of urban teenagers. But from the inside, they're some of the most complex people readers will ever meet. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Emotions & Feelings - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Physical & Emotional Abuse (see Also Social Themes - Sexual - Young Adult Fiction | Lifestyles - City & Town Life |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001048436 |
| Lexile Measure: 830 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.48" W x 8.47" (0.59 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Topical - Friendship - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 42964 Reading Level: 4.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 8.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the outside, they're simply a group of urban teenagers. But from the inside, they're some of the most complex people you'll ever meet. There's Eric, fiercely protective of his brother Mickey-but he has a secret that holds together his past and future. Sonia, struggling to live the life of a good Muslim girl in a foreign America. Gingerbread and Keisha, who fall in love despite themselves. Life Is Funny strips away the defenses of one group of teenagers living today, right now-and shows their unbearably real lives. First novelist Frank breaks new ground with a realistic, lyrical novel about eleven teens in Brooklyn now . . . Their talk is painful, rough, sexy, funny, fearful, furious, gentle. Each chapter, each vignette within a chapter, builds to its own climax, and the stories weave together to surprise you. (Booklist, starred review) An astounding first effort. (Kirkus Reviews, pointer review) |