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Cursed
- Author
- Karol Ruth Silverstein
- Narrator
- Laura Knight Keating
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 5 May 2020
- Run Time
- 9 hours 24 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Physical and mental health conditions, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Bullying and harassment
What to expect
I'm not like them. I hurt, and they don't. I'm weird, and they're not.
Fourteen-year-old Ricky Bloom is pretty pissed off. Her body hurts constantly (thanks, chronic illness), her family's a mess (thanks, Disaster-Formerly-Known-As-My-Parents), ninth grade is a nightmare (thanks, Glorious Grant Middle School), and her crush is completely clueless. What's a girl to do but cuss (a lot) and skip school (also a lot)?
But it gets worse. When her truancy—a.k.a. The Charade—is discovered, Ricky might have to do the unthinkable: repeat a grade. Ricky will do anything to get the hell out of middle school—even if it means changing the person she's become.
This brilliantly funny, foulmouthed story of chronic illness, messy post-divorce families, and teen romance will resonate with anybody who fights to keep it together when everything, even their own body, is falling apart.
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Details
- Author
- Karol Ruth Silverstein
- Narrator
- Laura Knight Keating
- Duration
- 9 hours 24 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 May 2020
- ISBN
- 9781980091684
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Physical and mental health conditions, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Bullying and harassment
Synopsis
I'm not like them. I hurt, and they don't. I'm weird, and they're not. Fourteen-year-old Ricky Bloom is pretty pissed off. Her body hurts constantly (thanks, chronic illness), her family's a mess (thanks, Disaster-Formerly-Known-As-My-Parents), ninth grade is a nightmare (thanks, Glorious Grant Middle School), and her crush is completely clueless. What's a girl to do but cuss (a lot) and skip school (also a lot)?  But it gets worse. When her truancy—a.k.a. The Charade—is discovered, Ricky might have to do the unthinkable: repeat a grade. Ricky will do anything to get the hell out of middle school—even if it means changing the person she's become. This brilliantly funny, foulmouthed story of chronic illness, messy post-divorce families, and teen romance will resonate with anybody who fights to keep it together when everything, even their own body, is falling apart.
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