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All she wants is a token of his affection.
Minx
November 2008
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Featuring: Shira Spektor
176 pages ISBN: 1401215386 EAN: 9781401215385 Paperback
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Graphic Novel | Young Adult
Itβs 1987 and fifteen-year old Shira Spektor lives with her father in a funky apartment building on Miamiβs South Beach. More comfortable wearing retro 40βs clothing than the current fashions, Shira doesnβt belong β which is why her best friend is a bawdy, brassy eighty year old, and Shira herself has never even been kissed properly. It would have helped to have a mother to turn to for advice, but Shira and her dad have been doing all right on their own since she was three. And then her father falls in love with his secretary, and suddenly Shira isnβt his special girl anymore. Bruised by her fatherβs constant criticism and the barbed attention from the popular girls at school, Shira finds comfort in a dangerous new hobby β shoplifting. But when she gets caught by a streetwise, dark-eyed boy from Spain, Shira discovers an unexpected friend and ally. And then friendship grows into something more thrillingβ¦and less safe.
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