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| Original Title: | Into the Wild Nerd Yonder |
| ISBN: | 0312382529 (ISBN13: 9780312382520) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://us.macmillan.com/intothewildnerdyonder/JulieHalpern |
| Literary Awards: | South Carolina Book Award for Young Adult (2012), Lincoln Award Nominee (2015), Cybils Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2009) |
Julie Halpern
Hardcover | Pages: 245 pages Rating: 3.8 | 4011 Users | 574 Reviews
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| Title | : | Into the Wild Nerd Yonder |
| Author | : | Julie Halpern |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 245 pages |
| Published | : | September 29th 2009 by Feiwel & Friends |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Contemporary. Romance. Realistic Fiction. Teen. Humor |
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It’s Jessie’s sophomore year of high school. A self-professed “mathelete,” she isn’t sure where she belongs. Her two best friends have transformed themselves into punks and one of them is going after her longtime crush. Her beloved older brother will soon leave for college (and in the meantime has shaved his mohawk and started dating . . . the prom princess!) . . . Things are changing fast. Jessie needs new friends. And her quest is a hilarious tour through high-school clique-dom, with a surprising stop along the way—the Dungeons and Dragons crowd, who out-nerd everyone. Will hanging out with them make her a nerd, too? And could she really be crushing on a guy with too-short pants and too-white gym shoes? If you go into the wild nerd yonder, can you ever come back?Rating Regarding Books Into the Wild Nerd Yonder
Ratings: 3.8 From 4011 Users | 574 ReviewsJudgment Regarding Books Into the Wild Nerd Yonder
This coming-of-age, finding oneself book was soo good. It's about not worrying about what others think, about not being afraid to be yourself, friendships and general dorkiness. It was such blast.slight spoilers ahead:Jesse is your run-of-the-mill, typical teenage girl. Her brother is the cool-punky guy who everyone adores. He is in a band with Van, who is 'that guy'. You know, the one all the girls swoon over. Jesse is not an exception. She's been crushing over him for as long as she can2.5 stars The story was cute, but a bit too shallow, juvenile, and judgmental for my tastes. I mightve enjoyed this book much more, if I read it as a middle schooler. I was a bit annoyed with the use of parentheses in every other sentence. Not to mention, Jessies passive-aggressive, judgmental, and holier-than-thou attitudeOK, so your best friends transformed into total poser punks; they wanted to look cool so they picked up smoking, and theyre starting to get a little boy crazy with the wrong
I love Julie Halpern-she writes with so much humor and heart that it makes for a great read. As a fellow nerd, I adored Jessie's journey to the nerd side. Granted, Jessie was never a super popular girl herself. She claims to be a mathlete and her hobby is sewing various skirts made from fun themed fabric. (I wish I could sew just to do that too!) But Jessie knows the D&D crowd is a new level of nerd and she doesn't know if she's ready to go there.Aside from the nerd storyline, there's a
"How is it that someone becomes a dork? Do they choose to, just like Bizza and Char decided to turn punk? Are they born that way? What makes some people like punk music and Denny's and other people like costumes and Dungeons and Dragons? And where do I fit into all of this?" One word: Adorkable! Into the Wild Nerd Yonder is hilarious, witty, and so very (sometimes even painfully) relatable. Though I know I'm a little too old for the character to fully enjoy some of her mannerisms or one-liners,
My two favorite things about this book are as follows: 1. Allusions to great YA books. When I was a teenager, I tried to read, listen to, and learn about everything I ever saw referenced in my favorite books. To see references to Life As We Knew It, Elsewhere, and Harry Potter thrilled me not just because two of the three are favorites of mine, but also because I think talking about contemporary teen fiction made Jessie that much more real. 2. This book spoke to my own high school self. Like
Reviewed by Sarah Bean the Green Bean Teen Queen for TeensReadToo.comJessie doesn't know where she belongs in high school anymore. Her best friends have turned into overnight punks. Her punk rock brother is dating the prom princess. In a quest to find new friends, Jessie stumbles upon the Dungeons and Dragons crowd. But if she ventures into the wild nerd yonder, can she ever come back?I love Julie Halpern - she writes with so much humor and heart that it makes for a great read. As a fellow nerd,
It is kind of hard for me to relate to this book totally, because its about one girls slow acceptance of her own nerdy ways, and I never struggled with that. I was a magnificently huge nerd in high school. I never had my own car, so I took the bus to and from school all the way through my senior year, and was thus the oldest person to take the bus (although my best friend had a 1960s Dodge Dart with a sweet teal paint job and a passenger door that would swing open unexpectedly during sharp
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