
Nice Try, Jane Sinner
Kindle Edition
HarperCollins · Ebook · January 9, 2018
"Jane Sinner snarked her way into my heart, and she's never leaving.
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- Who it’s for
- Edgy, playful teen fiction with warmth and a sharp comic pulse.
- Genres
- Mental Illness for Teens, College & Uni YA, Dark Comedy YA
- Published
- HarperCollins, January 9, 2018
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"Jane Sinner snarked her way into my heart, and she's never leaving. Prepare to fall hard for this hilarious, heartfelt gem of a book."—Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda It’s Kind of a Funny Story meets Daria in the darkly hilarious tale of a teen’s attempt to remake her public image and restore inner peace through reality TV. The only thing 17-year-old Jane Sinner hates more than failure is pity.
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After a personal crisis and her subsequent expulsion from high school, she’s going nowhere fast. Jane’s well-meaning parents push her to attend a high school completion program at the nearby Elbow River Community College, and she agrees, on one condition: she gets to move out. Jane tackles her housing problem by signing up for House of Orange, a student-run reality show that is basically Big Brother, but for Elbow River Students. Living away from home, the chance to win a car (used, but whatever), and a campus full of people who don't know what she did in high school… what more could she want? Okay, maybe a family that understands why she’d rather turn to Freud than Jesus to make sense of her life, but she'll settle for fifteen minutes in the proverbial spotlight. As House of Orange grows from a low-budget web series to a local TV show with fans and shoddy T-shirts, Jane finally has the chance to let her cynical, competitive nature thrive. She'll use her growing fan base, and whatever Intro to Psychology can teach her, to prove to the world—or at least viewers of substandard TV—that she has what it takes to win.
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Edgy, playful teen fiction with warmth and a sharp comic pulse.
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- edgy, playful teen voice
- friendship and new experiences with a wry edge
Expect
- contemporary teen concerns
- a mix of bite, tenderness, and book-club chatter
Where it sits
| Mental Illness for Teens | 40% |
|---|---|
| Dark Comedy YA | 32% |
| College & Uni YA | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Dark Comedy YA
- YA LGBTQ+
- TV & Radio for Teens
- Christian Social Issues YA
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- Contemporary YA Romance
- College & Uni YA
- Depression for Teens
- Authors
- Lianne Oelke
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- January 9, 2018
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Dark Comedy YA