Sophomore Year Is Greek to Me

Zusatztext "Fans of Sarah Mlynowski! Stephanie Perkins and Louise Rennison will enjoy this squeaky-clean travel adventure about the strength of family and the power of new experiences."-- Kirkus Reviews "Zeitlin has created a welcoming and exciting read set half-way around the world from what most American high school sophomores experience." --Voya   Informationen zum Autor Meredith Zeitlin  is the author of  Freshman Year & Other Unnatural Disasters ! as well as a voiceover artist who has worked in commercials! film and television shows. She also writes a column for  Ladygunn Magazine!  changes her hair color every few months! and has many fancy pairs of spectacles. Meredith lives in Brooklyn! New York. Follow her on Twitter @zeitlingeist 1 Just before the clock ticks over into a brand-new year, one that is going to be completely different from any I’ve experienced before, my dad and I get on a plane—my first overseas flight—heading to Greece. I look out the window, take a deep breath . . . and then we soar off into the sky. Fourteen-Hour Trip Not Nearly As Awesome As Anticipated During the course of the seemingly endless journey from New York to Athens today, Zona Lowell, 15, realized she was on the verge of jumping out the plane window. “It was two different flights and both were delayed, my little TV was broken for one of them, and reading made me feel like I was going to throw up. The food was horrible, and my dad was snoring practically the entire time. Based on my TV commercial–focused research, I thought travel abroad would be fancy and exciting. As usual, field reporting reveals that real life is not as glamorous as anticipated.” Zona’s father, well-known international journalist David Lowell, had this to say: “I love my daughter, but she seems to have trouble distinguishing between actual problems and slight inconveniences. Hopefully seeing a bit of the world will help. I will say, however, that the food was totally gross.” Mr. Lowell then went back to sleep and was unavailable for further comment. Filed, 9:23 p.m., somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean. By the time we land in Athens, I’m so keyed up and restless from endless cups of coffee and sitting in a deceptively uncomfortable chair for so many hours that I want to lie down in a nice soft bed and run laps around the airport at the same time. My dad, on the other hand, is just plain cranky. He hates long flights, which makes his choice of career kind of ironic. Well, he’ll get no sympathy from me—this was his idea, after all. I wanted to stay in New York where I belong. We collect Tony, our exceptionally grumpy Scottish terrier, stumble through customs, get our passports stamped (my first stamp!), and retrieve our luggage. Frankly, I didn’t think it would all make it, but I suppose miracles happen every day. Dad is riffling through a sheaf of papers, looking for the one that will tell us how to get to our sublet. It’s in a neighborhood called Kallithea that is supposedly not hard to get to, but suddenly I’m not even sure I can make it to a bench before collapsing. Does jet lag set in immediately? As we head out of the airport arrivals area, the first thing I notice is the signs: they’re in English and Greek, those strange curly letters that look like hieroglyphics to me. I thumbed through an English-to-Greek dictionary back in New York, but I couldn’t make heads or tails of it, so seeing the English signs is a huge relief. Maybe I won’t be hopelessly lost after all . . . or at the very least, I can just hang out in the airport if I get desperate. There’s a big glassed-in smoking area in the middle of the airport, which is weird to see—in New York City, smoking is banned everywhere. My dad, who smoked like a chimney before I was born (and sometimes has been known to sneak a cigarette when he th...

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"Fans of Sarah Mlynowski, Stephanie Perkins and Louise Rennison will enjoy this squeaky-clean travel adventure about the strength of family and the power of new experiences."-- Kirkus Reviews

"Zeitlin has created a welcoming and exciting read set half-way around the world from what most American high school sophomores experience." --Voya

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Meredith Zeitlin
• Edition: Penguin Books USA
• Langues: Anglais
• Recommandation d'âge: à partir de 12 ans
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 05.04.2016, retardé
• EAN: 9780147517937
• ISBN: 978-0-14-751793-7
• Pages: 336
• Thème: Speak
• Catégorie: Livres pour enfants et adolescents > Livres pour enfants jusqu'à 11 ans