Getting the Girl - A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance, and Cookery

Zusatztext "Clever! smart! and wryly observant! [with] an impressive array of convincingly quirky! original characters." Informationen zum Autor Susan Juby  is an award-winning and bestselling author. Mindful of Murder debuted at number one on the independent bookstores bestseller chart and was a finalist for the Leacock Medal for Humour. Most recently, A Meditation on Murder was a Globe and Mail , Toronto Star , and Vancouver Sun bestseller. Juby is also the author of Getting the Girl ,  Another Kind of Cowboy , The Woefield Poultry Collective , the bestselling Alice series, and Republic of Dirt , which won the Leacock Medal. Susan Juby lives on Vancouver Island with her husband and their dogs, who are convinced they could have lucrative careers as social media stars. Klappentext Meet Sherman Mack. Short. Nerdy. Amateur P.I. And prepared to do anything for Dini Trioli, tenth-grade goddess. Nobody knows how the tradition began, but every girl at Harewood Tech fears being D-listed, a ritual that wipes her off the social map forever. When Sherman believes Dini is in danger of being D-listed, he launches a full-scale investigation to save her. Part comedy, part mystery, and with all of Juby's trademark laugh-out-loud style, Getting the Girl takes on the cruelest aspect of high school social life. Meet Sherman Mack, the only one willing to fight back. Zusammenfassung Meet Sherman Mack. Short. Nerdy. Amateur P.I. And prepared to do anything for Dini Trioli! tenth-grade goddess. Nobody knows how the tradition began! but every girl at Harewood Tech fears being D-listed! a ritual that wipes her off the social map forever. When Sherman believes Dini is in danger of being D-listed! he launches a full-scale investigation to save her. Part comedy! part mystery! and with all of Juby’s trademark laugh-out-loud style! Getting the Girl takes on the cruelest aspect of high school social life. Meet Sherman Mack! the only one willing to fight back. ...

Product details

• Authors: Susan Juby
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 13
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.09.2010
• EAN: 9780060765286
• ISBN: 978-0-06-076528-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Story books, fairytales, sagas, rhymes, songs; YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Mysteries & Detective Stories *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / Friendship *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / Assimilation *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Romance / Contemporary *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Humorous / General *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / Bullying *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Family / Stepfamilies *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / Peer Pressure *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Romance / Romantic Comedy *