What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Me Jane
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SOLVED. British YA fiction, around 1989. Main character Jane is daughter of single mother, has friend called Ginger Mike, gets free apples from boy who likes her [s]
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Growing Point - Volume 28 - Page 5300https://books.google.com.au/books?id...
Margery Turner Fisher - 1989 - Snippet view - More editions
Distantly admiring glamorous Larry Payne at school, she enjoys a relaxed friendship with Ginger Mike and black Wayne, while Andy at the greengrocer's fancies her and slips apples to her as she passes and Wayne's sister Lorette and Indian ...
Growing Point - Volume 28 - Page 5300
https://books.google.com.au/books?id...
Margery Turner Fisher - 1989 - Snippet view - More editions
the service of stories which, full of cackling laughter and diverting incidents, contain clues to young aspirations and emotions which are entirely worth searching out even in the course of happy enjoyment. Jane, plumpish at fifteen, spreads her ...
Growing Point - Volume 28 - Page 5299
https://books.google.com.au/books?id...
Margery Turner Fisher - 1989 - Snippet view - More editions
... community is useful but whose racist attitudes soon become grotesquely inappropriate in Lloyd's life. Here is an author whose impeccable novelistic techniques are generously used in the service of stories which, full of cackling laughter and ...
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Thank you bookel! I don't know why I couldn't find that myself. I recognised the cover straight away. Me Jane
It was not an easy one where title and author are near the description (I usually search the first few words in quotes with book name to reveal more in the search result). The location was close enough and it was luck to come across it through persistence and looking at title and author elsewhere to see if the plot sounded correct. Glad it was your book.
It's British YA fiction published in 1989 (I can tell that from the date of the review). The main character is a teen girl called Jane, who has a friend called Ginger Mike, and a crush on a boy at school called Larry Payne (I remember jokes about if she married him she would be called Jane Payne). A boy who works in a fruit shop has a crush on Jane and gives her free apples. Jane's mother is a single parent who I think starts dating again during the book.
The book is quite light on plot, if I remember correctly. It's just about Jane's day to day life and interactions with her friends and family.
Link to the review I found is below, please bear in mind that Growing Point is the name of the journal that the review appears in, and Margery Turner Fisher is the editor of the journal. They are *not* the title and author of the book - I have checked this. I don't have any access to the journal so I have no way to read the original review.
Link: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=p...
If anyone knows how I can get any further with this query I would really appreciate it!