Life As I Knew It
1st Edition
Published on 11. May 2010
240 pages
978-1-4391-2150-4 (ISBN)
Description
My name is Angelina Rossini. A little about me:
THAT SAID:
I could deal, though. Mainly because my dad was around, and he was my sun. Our sun, really: my mom's, my stepsister's, and mine. My dad kept us all in place, orbiting around him.
But then the sun, well...it went out. Click.
That was the end of Life As I Knew It -- and the beginning of something a lot different.
- I am sixteen years old.
- I live in Blodgett, Vermont. Population: 854.
- Most of my life's been pretty normal for a twenty-first-century American teen.
THAT SAID:
- I'm in love with my best friend who, um, recently came out.
- I sometimes get the sense that my mother wishes I hadn't been born.
- I maintain a low level of hostility with at least one of my classmates.
I could deal, though. Mainly because my dad was around, and he was my sun. Our sun, really: my mom's, my stepsister's, and mine. My dad kept us all in place, orbiting around him.
But then the sun, well...it went out. Click.
That was the end of Life As I Knew It -- and the beginning of something a lot different.
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Randi Hacker
Life as I Knew It
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09/2006
Simon Pulse
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Writer and educator Randi Hacker has written both fiction and nonfiction titles, often focusing on educational topics.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Breakfast
- A Vision of Heaven
- All Families Are Different
- The Fine Line Between Embarrassing and Cool
- Body is My Second Language
- Lunch
- Logger Genes
- Dinner
- Back to Active Service
- Lez Nest
- A Surprising Thing About Evolution
- A Tough Old Bastard
- A good Rule of Thumb When You 're Eavesdropping
- The Chaos Theory
- Later That Same Day .
- Snabu
- Home Alone
- The Top Three Epiphanies
- Mothers vs. Fathers
- Pity A
- Paradox on Earth
- Helping Daddy Pee
- Meanwhile, Back at School
- TRUE COMMUNICATION
- The Winter Concert
- Last Day on Earth
- Not a Church
- Life After Death
- Acknowledgments
