num_pages: 420
description: The only thing 17-year-old Jane Sinner hates more than failure is pity. After a personal crisis and her subsequent expulsion from high school shes going nowhere fast. Janes 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 shed 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 worldor at least viewers of substandard TVthat she has what it takes to win.
language: English
title: Nice Try, Jane Sinner
publisher: Clarion Books