ten miles past normal

ten miles past normal PAPERBACK by frances o'roark dowell ISBN 978-0-545-60910-4 211 pages Goat poop on your shoes does not endear you to your classmates. Nor does having a mom who blogs about your lives as sustainable farmers. Nor would wearing homemade jeans (the threat looms large). Normal? Not so much. But Janie Gorman wants normal. Wants it bad. Who actually has a normal high school experience anyway, though? So Janie changes directions and discovers life on the fringe - joining Jam Band and valuing righteous chocolate, and meeting an inspiring pair of civil rights heroes and a boy named Monster (yes, that is his real name - and yes, he's totally crush-worthy). Normal? That's not really where this is headed.