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Gr 9 Up—Charlie Dean and John Thomas-Smith live on the wrong side of the tracks, but they both want to attend the private and exclusive Green Pastures Academy of Art and Applied Design. Their local public high school is so poorly funded that all nonessential classes, including art, have been eliminated from the curriculum. But every year, Green Pastures sponsors an emerging talents scholarship worth one year's tuition to its exclusive academy for the winner of a discipline-specif...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

From the world of artsy teens in small-town British Columbia first introduced in Juby's The Truth Commission (rev. 3/15) comes another sly, boldly narrated contemporary tale. Two public high school students--relentlessly optimistic Charlie Dean and acerbic John Thomas-Smith--are vying for a scholarship to Green Pastures Academy of Art and Applied Design in the fashion design program. Charlie's fashion obsession has always helped her cope with her parents' substance abuse; now she is an impeccably dressed, comically over-prepared candida...Log In or Sign Up to Read More