num_pages: 302
description: Thirteen-year-old Katie is new to her Missouri town, living alone with a stern, inaccessible father following her mother's death. Unable to fit in at school, she forges alliances where she can: with her housekeeper, with a pimply fellow misfit named Cynthia, and with the gorgeous Taylor, who gets her kicks out of shoplifting. Most frustrating of all is Katie's imperfect friendship with the proprietor of a local gas station, a handsome 23-year-old who shares her love of checkers but doesn't return her crush. With humor and an eye for telling detail, Berg conveys the way each uncompromising element of Katie's life ultimately offers her more than she had anticipated.
language: English
title: Joy School
titlecomplete: Joy School (Katie Nash, #2)
genres: Adult, Chick Lit, Coming Of Age, Adult Fiction, Young Adult, Novels, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Womens Fiction
ratings_count: 6687
series: Katie Nash
publisher: Random House