Earls, Nick. 48 Shades of brown.Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. The company's headquarters is located in Boston's Back Bay. It publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers , Graphia. 274p. 1999. 0-618-452958. $6.99. S To quote from the review of the audio-book in KLIATT, January 2003: This Australian coming-of-age novel is both funny and poignant. When his father is given a one-year assignment in Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. , Daniel has three options: to accompany his parents, to board at school, or to move into a house with his 22-year-old Aunt Jacq. Jacq plays bass in an all-girl band and has a lovely blonde housemate house·mate n. One who shares a house with another. Noun 1. housemate - someone who resides in the same house with you named Naomi, a university student just two years older than Daniel. Figuring he can learn more than calculus in his last year of school, Dan opts to stay with Aunt Jacq and Naomi. There is a lot of frustration and confusion as 16-year-old Dan faces the awakening emotions generated by his "plan" for his year with Jacq and Naomi: to achieve his four goals--beer, sex, attitude, and calculus. As Dan fumbles through the process of forming a relationship with someone of the opposite sex, he also learns about making pesto, interpreting Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet star-crossed lovers die as teenagers. [Br. Lit.: Romeo and Juliet] See : Death, Premature Romeo and Juliet archetypal star-crossed lovers. [Br. Lit. , why almost all birds are one of the 48 shades of Noun 1. shades of - something that reminds you of someone or something; "aren't there shades of 1948 here?" reminder - an experience that causes you to remember something brown, and why his best course of action is just to be himself. Carol Kellerman, Santa Fe, NM |
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