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Item number:	330368185970
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Author:	Lucy Frank	Format:	Paperback
Publisher:	Laurel Leaf	ISBN-10:	0440219906
Edition Description:	Reprint	ISBN-13:	9780440219903
Publication Year:	1996	Subject:	--
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Language:	English	Special Attributes:	--
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Fifteen-year-old Sarah thinks her summer job as a mother's helper for a Manhattan family will be a breeze. After all, how difficult could it be to care for someone who is already 12-years-old? Sarah's illusions about her job are shattered when she meets the Friedman family--the parents are in the midst of a divorce and young Emily is suffering from anorexia. As Sarah attempts to help Emily, she comes to appreciate her own "boring" parents back home. Working as a mother's helper in New York City, fifteen-year-old Sarah finds herself caught in the middle of a troubled relationship between an eccentric writer and her anorexic daughter.
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Length:	187 pages
Height:	7.3 in.
Width:	4.5 in.
Thickness:	0.8 in.
Weight:	3.2 oz.

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"I have to peel through all these outer layers to find the real me", writes this 15-year-old mother's helper as she helps the members of a New York City family deal with serious problems. A Publisher's Weekly Flying Start Author. Targeted media. Fifteen-year-old Sarah cant wait to start her summer job as a mothershelper in exciting New York City. At first everything about the job looks great. Mrs. Friedman is outgoing, and her beautiful, 12-year-old daughterEmily seems too self-sufficient to need much looking after. Sarahs even met agood-looking guy in the building. But soon Sarah feels that she's landed inthe middle of a mess. Emily has a serious eating disorder, and her divorcedparents argue about how to handle her. As Sarah gets closer to Emily, shefeels caught between her desire to help and fear that she is in over her head.
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Despite the serious subject matter anorexia and dysfunctional families this accomplished first novel sparkles with deliciously wry humor. Narrator Sarah, 15, thinks that a summer job in New York City as a mother's helper is just the ticket to get her away from her ``terminally bland'' suburban family. Her fantasy is to work for an ideal family (composed of ``a basic father, a mother who was like your basic mother only nicer, and two cute basic little kids''). Instead she winds up with the redoubtable Mrs. Friedman and her wraithlike 12-year-old daughter, Emily, who barely eats and spends every spare moment pedaling furiously on an exercise bike. To her dismay, Sarah soon learns that she is a pawn in the power struggle between Emily's parents and that her real job is to get the anorexic girl to eat. Although Sarah doesn't effect a cure, by taking charge at a crucial moment she points the Friedmans in the right direction and just as important sees herself and her own parents in a new light. In a slangy, deadpan narrative spiced with astute observations of characters and scenery, Frank brings a fresh, funny and vibrant new voice to YA literature. Ages 12-up. (Apr.) Bernstein Gr 7-10 Sarah, 15, takes a summer job as a mother's helper in New York City to escape from her boring and annoying family. She quickly realizes that she is in over her head at the Friedman's, with 12-year-old Emily suffering from a serious eating disorder and her divorced parents pitted against one another over her treatment. Frank paints a painfully realistic portrait of anorexia, divorce, families, growing up, and friendship, albeit a portrait tempered by flashes of humor. She is particularly adept at capturing adolescent speech and thoughts, as Sarah struggles for the maturity to handle the situation by peeling thorny layers of her real self, comparing herself to a poem about an artichoke that she had written several years before. When Sarah realizes that she can't deal alone with these people so enmeshed in issues of power and control, she takes Emily home to her own family, which she begins to appreciate. Frank's novel is wonderfully rich and multilayered; there are no simple reasons nor easy solutions. Young people will be drawn with fascination into the dynamics of the characters. The ending is perhaps a bit too neat and positive, as it may not be clear to readers how very long Emily and her parents' road to recovery might well be. Still, it's a fine first novel. Connie Tyrrell Burns, Mahoney Middle School, South Portland, ME Lopate

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Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0440219906
Title : I Am an Artichoke (Laurel-Leaf Books)
EAN : 9780440219903
Authors : Lucy Frank
Binding : Paperback
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Publication Date : 1996-10-01
Pages : 187
List Price (MSRP) : 3.99
Height : 0.6000 inches
Width : 4.2000 inches
Length : 6.8000 inches
Weight : 0.2000 pounds
Keywords : BISAC Test, General, General AAS, Frank, Lucy, Paperback, Printed Books, Young Adult, Fiction, Adolescentes
Condition : Good

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