Project Description

This Girl is Different
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-56145-578-2
Publication Date: 4/1/2011
Page Count: 288
Size: 5-1/4″ x 8″
Age Range: 12 – 16
Language: English
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 978-1-56145-700-7
Publication Date: 4/1/2013
Page Count: 320
Size: 5-1/4″ x 8″
Age Range: 12 – 16
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-56145-721-2
Age Range: 12 – 16
Language: English
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F&P: GRL Z+, Gr 9th & up, Genre RF
Lexile: HL530L
Themes: Bullies, Free Speech, Injustice, Responsibility
BISAC 1: YAF054000 YOUNG ADULT FICTION / School & Education / General
BISAC 2: YAF011000 YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Coming of Age
BISAC 3: YAF022000 YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Girls & Women
Reviews
“Readers will never look at high school―or life―the same.” ―Kirkus Reviews
“Smart first novel…Johnson reveals a broad spectrum of perspectives through her characters’ differing sentiments, motivations, and opinions.” ―Publishers Weekly
“Johnson’s fun, activist-minded debut has a close cousin in Jamila Stevenson’s The Latte Rebellion (2010). Evie is a strong yet vulnerable heroine whose intellectual bent and sense of self will remind readers that, as historian Laurel Thatcher Urlich said, ‘Well-behaved women rarely make history.’” ―Booklist
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“The objections Evie raises and the relationship hits she takes because of them will resonate with the target audience; these are the age-old problems with schools and other institutions in a democratic society, and this exploration of the means of redress, while pat and purposive, will surely inspire discussion.” ―Children’s Book Council
“At once you’ll want to be Evie’s champion, and readers may even absorb some literary tidbits worth hanging on to along the way. JJ Johnson is an author whose writing is both fresh and worth taking notice of…” ―Baker and Taylor
“Books about high school tend either to be about peer politics and romance or about the injustice of oppressive adult systems. This book combines both plot types, intelligently and humorously…” ―Parents’ Choice
“Both confident and temperate, [JJ Johnson’s] writing never moves too far into any one extreme and manages simplicity without tediousness…refreshing…” ―Florida Times-Union
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Awards
Parents’ Choice Silver Honor ―Parents’ Choice Foundation, 2011
Best Children’s Books of the Year ―Bank Street College of Education, 2012
Amelia Bloomer Project ―Feminist Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association, 2012
Keystone to Reading Book Award (High School Nominee) ―Keystone State Reading Association, 2012
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Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers (Nominee) ―Georgia Library Media Association, Georgia Library Association, and the Georgia Public Library Service, 2012-2013
Kansas State Reading Circle Recommended Reading List (Starred, Senior High) ―Kansas National Education Association, 2012
North Carolina Author Awards (Nominee, AAUW Award for Juvenile Literature) ―North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, 2011
UMW Reading Program ―United Methodist Women, 2015
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Meet the Author

J.J. Johnson graduated from Binghamton University and worked an internship coordinator for programs such as The Learning Web and Youth Advocacy. She earned a Master of Education from Harvard University, with a concentration in Adolescent Risk and Prevention. Johnson lives in North Carolina. You can visit her website here.