It is hard to think of any other American writer who has so successfully put on paper the sorrows and joys and absurdities of girlhood. Cleary's earlier stories and whose warm understanding carries it to a new height. The most popular boy in school has asked Jane outand shes never even dated before. So will everyone who has ever been fifteen.How Jane emerges from the agonizing awkwardness of adolescence is the theme of a book whose humor matches that of Mrs. Fifteen Beverly Cleary, Click to preview With her usual warmth, perceptiveness, and humor, Newbery Medal winner Beverly Cleary creates the joys and worries of a young girls first crush. Because Jane's problems are their own, girls approaching fifteen will take her to their hearts. And then one evening the telephone rings.No reader can fail to share Jane's breathless excitement or the shattering ups and downs of her friendship with Stan. I'm just not the type to interest an older man. But I'll never see him again, Jane tells herself despairingly the next day. Stan appears just in time to prevent Sandra, by a skillful use of pig Latin, from emptying a bottle of ink onto the Nortons' blond living-room carpet. more ยป -sitting for Sandra Norton, the toughest assignment in town. Then she meets Stan: tall, good-looking, resourceful and sixteen years old-all she ever dreamed of. But things soon turn around when Stan, one of the most popular boys in school decides he likes Jane Purdy. No one has ever asked her for a date except George, an unromantic boy who is an inch shorter than she is and talks of nothing but his rock collection. In Fifteen, by Beverly Cleary, Jane is a nobody. Jane Purdy is fifteen and a sophomore in high school.
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