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Gr 7-9 Today is Josie's 16th birthday, but because it is February 29th, it's really only her 4th "official" birthday. She wears her "The Few, The Proud, The Leapers" T-shirt and checks in with many of her e-mail leapmates from around the country. Her family and friends make a big deal of her "last" teenage birthday. In the meantime, Josie has a lot on her mind, including the tryouts for Romeo and Juliet, her driver's test, and, of course, hunky Grant Brawner. Josie's first-person narration, laced wi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

This second novel from Mass (A Mango-Shaped Space, rev. 7/03) follows a day in the life of sixteen-year-old Josie—her birthday, actually, which happens to be Leap Day. The first chapter relates every one of Josie's thoughts as she gets ready for school, including her reflection, "If they only knew what goes on inside my head." Readers get all that and more. Half of each chapter is narrated by Josie, while the other half, covering the same time period, is a third-person omniscient narrative that dips into the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More