Becoming Bobbie
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Growing up as a bona fide tomboy in the shadow of her fashionable, ladylike mother, Bobbie lives for three things: cars, music, and time with her uncomplicated, mechanic dad. She doesnt need much in the way of friends. Her best girlfriends are on the radiowomen with names like Aretha, Janis, and Diana. And she loves the cool logic of working on enginesthe simple joy of finding the part that doesnt work, of fixing whats broken. But whats broken beneath the shiny façade of her family is something beyond Bobbies control, a shattering secret that tears her family apart and sends Bobbie into a spiral of anger and defiance that she finds echoed only in the electric pain of rock n roll.
Moving from school to school as a Professional New Kid and all-around loner, Bobbie wonders if shell ever fit in anywhere, especially as uncomfortable new feelings begin to surface. Shunned by her peers, abandoned by her disapproving mother, Bobbie finds herself drawn to her sympathetic English teacher, Agatha Claraday. It is her undeniable attraction to the lovely, enigmatic Agatha that changes everything and starts Bobbie on a life-altering odyssey of self-discovery from the Dark Side of the Moon to My Little Secret and beyond on a redemptive search for love, for a place in the world, and for a space within that feels like home
where becoming Bobbie means everything about being herself.
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Year: 2003
Country: USA
Original language: English
Writer: R.J. Stevens
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Publishing House: Kensington
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