SHUG
is clever and brave and true (on the inside, anyway). And she's about to become your new best friend.
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May 11, 2008
Jennifer
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Annemarie Wilcox, known to her family as Shug, is twelve-years old, tall, flat-chested, and nowhere near the type of girl she wants to be. Shug also believes that, ow that she's twelve, she's at the perfect age to receive her first kiss, and she knows just who she wants to give it to her--her best friend, Mark Findley, the true and actual boy-next-door. Well, actually, the boy down the street, but it's close enough. The only problem is that Mark doe More...
Annemarie Wilcox, known to her family as Shug, is twelve-years old, tall, flat-chested, and nowhere near the type of girl she wants to be. Shug also believes that, ow that she's twelve, she's at the perfect age to receive her first kiss, and she knows just who she wants to give it to her--her best friend, Mark Findley, the true and actual boy-next-door. Well, actually, the boy down the street, but it's close enough. The only problem is that Mark doe More...
Jun 27, 2008
Lynne
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Annemarie Wilcox, known to her family as Shug, is 12 years old, tall, flat-chested, and nowhere near the type of girl she wants to be. Shug also believes that, now that she's twelve, she's at the perfect age to receive her first kiss, and she knows just who she wants to give it to her--her best friend, Mark Findley. The only problem is that Mark doesn't have a romantic interest in Shug. For Mark, the perfect girl is Celia, Shug's beautiful, popular older sister.
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Mar 05, 2009
Steph Su
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Twelve-year-old Annemarie Wilcox--nicknamed "Shug," which is short for sugar--is feeling anything but sweet right now. She's entering middle school, her parents are constantly fighting (when they're not drunk or away for work), and things are changing between her and her friends. Mairi, Hadley, and even her best friend Elaine, a Korean American from up north, are eagerly venturing into the world of becoming a woman and meeting boys. But Annemarie wants nothing to do with that world...n
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Mar 04, 2010
Sarah
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Shug is an absolutely fantastic realistic book by Jenny Han about Annemarie 'Shug' Wilcox's problems during her first year of junior high. As the boys and girls at school get together in relationships, flat-chested, freckle-faced Shug finds herself left out. Her best friend, Elaine, is too involved in her relationship with Hugh, her new boyfriend, while Mark, the boy Shug has liked for a long time, has started to drift away from her. And to make it worse, Mark asks another girl to the upc
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Sep 14, 2011
Rydia
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Alright um not a fan. As I was labeling this book for my shelves I almost checked the children's book section.
First let me start off by saying I absolutely loved Jenny's other book "The Summer I Turned Pretty" loved it!
This one though- Complete agony for me. I wanted it to redeem itself the whole time. It was just so weird for me. I was completely thrown off by the accent which waaaay into the book was finally pointed out that she was actually southern and what really got me was that this girl More...
First let me start off by saying I absolutely loved Jenny's other book "The Summer I Turned Pretty" loved it!
This one though- Complete agony for me. I wanted it to redeem itself the whole time. It was just so weird for me. I was completely thrown off by the accent which waaaay into the book was finally pointed out that she was actually southern and what really got me was that this girl More...
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Jan 09, 2009
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Jul 12, 2008
Linnea
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You know I'm feeling more like myself when I can devour books in a timely fashion again! HUZZAH!
I remember I wanted to read this, but our library had lost their copy, and boy was I excited when I saw it on Miss Leslie's virtual bookshelf! I was utterly engrossed in Shug's world from the first chapter, mainly because it so reminded me of my childhood. I had SEVERAL "best friends" when I was younger, and three of them were from my 13 house cul-de-sac...and were boys. I spent More...
I remember I wanted to read this, but our library had lost their copy, and boy was I excited when I saw it on Miss Leslie's virtual bookshelf! I was utterly engrossed in Shug's world from the first chapter, mainly because it so reminded me of my childhood. I had SEVERAL "best friends" when I was younger, and three of them were from my 13 house cul-de-sac...and were boys. I spent More...
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Dec 12, 2007
Kathryn
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This is a book about a girl named Annemarie, who is hanging on the edge of the popular crowd. Her best friend Elaine is in it, and so is Mark, the boy she likes.
And if that's not enough, her home life isn't that great, what with a near-alcoholic mother, a father who is never home, and a beautiful high-school sister who doesn't seem to do anything wrong.
Plus, is it just Annemarie's imagination, or is Elaine slipping away, and is Mark starting to ignore her.
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And if that's not enough, her home life isn't that great, what with a near-alcoholic mother, a father who is never home, and a beautiful high-school sister who doesn't seem to do anything wrong.
Plus, is it just Annemarie's imagination, or is Elaine slipping away, and is Mark starting to ignore her.
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Nov 23, 2011
Laci
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Just when you think that the world should start getting pretty awesome, you have to grow up. At the age of 12, you should be starting to have the time of your life. At least that is what Annemarie thought was going to happen. Boy, was she wrong. In my experiences of being a 12 year old, things change. Sometimes they change for the good and sometimes they change for the bad. You don't really know what the outcome will be until you going through with it. In Annemarie's life, she is entering
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Nov 10, 2011
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Feb 12, 2011
fennie
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jenny han strikes again! i'm thoroughly impressed with this book; i thought it might simply be a cute story (and it is cute), but there is also depth to it. jenny han doesn't just skim the surface of tweens exploring love for the first time; she plunges deeper into their family situations, friendships and interpersonal relationships while staying true to the world of middle school, social status and first crushes.
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from the get-go, i felt a fierce protectiveness for shug; i didn't want t More...
Jan 13, 2011
Sarah
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Annemarie Wilcox, a girl from Clementon faces many struggles as a twelve year old. Her family is a wreck, her dad is always working, which causes her mom to drink her problems away. Her looks are always compared to her sisters. And she is starting to have feelings for a Mark (her neighbor) that has been her friend since the beginning of time. Annemarie feels left out because everyone is caught up in having boyfriends/girlfriends and all she wants is for Mark to like her. She narrates the story o
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Jan 14, 2011
Morgane G
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Annemarie Wilcox is the average 12-year-old girl. She’s at the stage where cliques fall into place, true friends are realized, and the exhausting struggle with boys begins. It all starts on a sweet summer night. Annemarie, or Shug, as her mother calls her, eating cherry popsicles with her oldest friend, Mark. They’re talking just like they normally would, and all of a sudden Shug realizes that she loves this boy. She looks at him and wishes he’d look at her in a way that wasn’t just a fr
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Jan 06, 2011
Lauren
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Shug is about this girl who lives in a small town called Clementon. Shug is a girl who never cared about what she was wearing and wasn’t afraid to talk to boys, but now she thinks that she isn’t as pretty as her sister, self-conscious and her dad is always gone on business trips and her mother goes out and comes home drunk all the time. She has this best friend named Mark, and when they get older she ends up starting to like him…no LOVE him. They would do everything together and when they got in
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Nov 07, 2010
Lexi
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Feb 07, 2010
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Jan 25, 2010
Kendra
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Shrug
by Jenny han
ppg 248 usa
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
isbn:9781416909422
So this is actually my second time rading it i rember some parts but the most intresing part was actually the parts i for got which was weird but the ending which was my favorite stayed in my heart and my mind and i had ot read it again to really understand why i liked this book so much.
so you have those summer days with your best friend, and hes a guy so the more More...
by Jenny han
ppg 248 usa
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
isbn:9781416909422
So this is actually my second time rading it i rember some parts but the most intresing part was actually the parts i for got which was weird but the ending which was my favorite stayed in my heart and my mind and i had ot read it again to really understand why i liked this book so much.
so you have those summer days with your best friend, and hes a guy so the more More...
Jul 06, 2009
Marie
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Sometimes you'll read a book that will choke you up. Rarely will I read a book that makes me flat out bawl...in a good way. Shug by Jenny Han (Alladin Mix, 2007), is one such book, and it has instantly become one of my favorite tween YA novels. Han grabs you immediately with Shug's authentic voice and sharp point of view.
The novel is all about the way things change once you enter middle school, whether you are ready or not. It starts in summer just before school starts, and already t More...
The novel is all about the way things change once you enter middle school, whether you are ready or not. It starts in summer just before school starts, and already t More...
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May 06, 2009
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Apr 13, 2009
Liz
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Shug is a cute love story about a young 12 year old girl named Annemarie Wilcox who has a big crush on her neighbor Mark Findley. Mark and Annemarie have always been best friends, and really close, but Annemarie develops feelings for Mark that are indescribable. Unfortunately, Mark doesn’t see Annemarie as more than a friend. To make matters worse, he thinks the perfect girl for him would be Celia…Annemarie’s gorgeous older sister. Things are changing and it’s too much for her to handle! At the
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Apr 13, 2009
Melanie
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Shug by Jenny Han is about a girl going into seventh grade and facing a bunch of problems with school, friends, family and boys. First, Mark, her best friend, starts getting closer to his guy-friends and farther away from her. And when Shug feels love for the first time, she knows Mark has got to be the one. Also, Shug has to fight between doing what is right and staying in the “in crowd,” she makes a large decision. And finally, Shug’s parents are fighting more and more lately because her mom i
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Apr 06, 2009
Qian
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This book is about a girl whose real name is Annemarie Wilcox, but have a nickname Shug . The book takes place in a town called Clementon and Shug growing up being a pleasant girl who doesn’t care about anything that goes on around the world, doesn’t care about her own appearance and everything. But what she cares about is her only true love Mark, but it turns out that she falls in love with someone else that even herself didn’t expect to. Maybe now that growing up isn’t so bad because she have
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Apr 26, 2011
Rachel
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I loved this book! I thought it was interesting that the main character's mother named her after the really vivacious character in "The Color Purple," but gave the less colorful name to her sister, which seemed kind of backward. Shug (aka Annemarie) is a twelve-year old going into the 7th grade. She likes her best friend Mark but has never been able to tell him so and since school started again, everything has started to change in her personal and school life, which she hates. She want
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Jun 18, 2009
Cindy
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Sep 28, 2011
*Emily S.
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Starting middle school is already crazy difficult, but starting middle school just as you’re noticing you’re falling in love with your best friend since you were very little, now that is just hard. That’s what Jenny Han decides Shug (Annemarie, her given name) was going to go through. She had just finished another amazing summer of laying on her back in the sun while eating popsicles with Mark again, when she noticed she was falling in love with him. She’d known Mark forever, and never felt anyt
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Oct 28, 2010
The Rusty Key
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Reviewed by Rusty Key Writer: Jordan B. Nielsen
Recommended for: Girls, aged 12 to 15. Themes of adult alcoholism and underage drinking are handled with seriousness. Themes of female puberty and light pre-teen romance make it a little more sophisticated than a middle grade book, but tween and early teen girls will likely find it highly relatable. Moms: sneak this one out of your daughters rooms when they aren’t looking and read it yourselves!
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Recommended for: Girls, aged 12 to 15. Themes of adult alcoholism and underage drinking are handled with seriousness. Themes of female puberty and light pre-teen romance make it a little more sophisticated than a middle grade book, but tween and early teen girls will likely find it highly relatable. Moms: sneak this one out of your daughters rooms when they aren’t looking and read it yourselves!
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Feb 18, 2011
Maggie
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Aug 09, 2009
Becky
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This is one of those books that nothing much can happen in, but it is still so good. If I just described the plot, it might sound like a lot of other books, but it's the writing that makes this one different. Annemarie's voice is so unique! Granted, I was drawn to her from the start since she was described as being unattractively skinny, too tall, and freckely. Picturing her just involved remember what I looked like at 12 (and still do)!
This story takes an interesting look at bullyin More...
This story takes an interesting look at bullyin More...
Nov 04, 2009
Margaret
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Annemarie Wilcox, nicknamed "Shug" by her family, is just starting junior high, and a lot of things are changing. Her family is showing the strain of the constant fights between her parents, her friends are more interested in boyfriends than in girlfriends, and Shug herself suddenly has a crush on Mark, the boy she's been best friends with forever. But everything is changing too fast for Shug, and she wonders why she can't just stay a kid.
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Oct 31, 2011
Jessie
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Shug starts off the new school year with a crush on her neighbor, a beautiful older sister, embarrassing parents, a group of friends, a group of frenemies, and a whole host of problems. Han writes convincingly about starting junior high, excellently capturing the complexity of early adolescent friendship. Han also captures the essence of early adolescent social changes in concrete events, such as when everyone’s moms stop showing up to an annual pool party, and the girls make a show of not eat
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