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Weightless
Weightless: A Novel
Weightless
Sarah Bannan
When Carolyn Lessing moves from New Jersey to Alabama with her mother, she rattles the status quo of the juniors at Adams High. Gorgeous, stylish, a great student and gifted athlete without a mean girl bone in her body Carolyn is gobbled up right away by the school's cliques. She even begins dating a senior, Shane, whose on again/off again girlfriend Brooke becomes Carolyn's bitter romantic rival. When a make-out video of Carolyn and Shane makes the rounds, Carolyn goes from golden girl to slut in an instant, with Brooke and her best friend responsible for the campaign.Carolyn is hounded and focused on, and becomes more and more private. Questions about her family and her habits torture her. But a violent confrontation with Shane and Brooke in the student parking lot is the last attack Carolyn can take.A novel to drop us all back into the intensity of our high school years, WEIGHTLESS is a startling and assured debut.Sarah Bannan's deft use of the first person plural gives Weightless an emotional intensity and remarkable power that will send you flying through the pages and leave you reeling.

Book Details

Genre: 

  • Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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The juniors at Adams High in Alabama are every bit as cliché and stereotyped as one would expect students in a southern high school to be. The sun is hot, the summer is ending, and the popularity contest is up and running. Carolyn Lessing, having just moved from New Jersey, is the new girl and is quickly becoming the new golden girl, making waves as she starts to usurp former popular girl Brooke.

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