num_pages: 224
description: "Show a little maturity," he said, which I've doped out to Pass all your courses, avoid detection in all crimes and misdemeanors, don't get pregnant.Celine's father has left her with these instructions. She's not too worried about the last two, but she'll fail English unless she rewrites her Catcher in the Rye essay. And she keeps being interrupted, especially by Jake, the neighbor's boy, who's been dumped on her for the weekend.An ALA Best Book for Young AdultsA School Library Journal Best Book of the YearA Booklist Best Book of the '80sA Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year
language: English
title: Celine
titlecomplete: Celine
genres: Fiction, Teen, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult, Novels
ratings_count: 232
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux