Cleavage
Subtitle: breakaway fiction for real girls
By: edited by Deb Loughead & Jocelyn Shipley
Publisher: Sumach Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781894549769
Subjects: Body image; Nouvelles canadiennes-anglaises; Teenage girls; Image du corps; Juvenile fiction; Fiction; Women authors; E crits de femmes canadiens-anglais; Canadian fiction (English); Roman canadien-anglais; Adolescentes; Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse; Short stories, Canadian (English)
Description: Collection of fifteen stories about girls who challenge convention and girls who wish they could, from the crazy antics around town of a giant 'regina' to bittersweet moments with a mom who has cancer. A pubescent girl longs for breast implants, a teen carries on a tongue-in-cheek correspondence with a glam magazine columnist, and a painter's daughter experiences the first awakenings of gay sexuality.
Table of contents: title: Former juice girl eats world's largest taco  -- Valerie Hunter; title: Wax world  -- Anna Wa rje; title: Faceless on the farm  -- Ann Sutherland; title: About my curves  -- Robin Stevenson; title: The puberty theory  -- Kellee Ngan; title: Presenting Miss Gorilla Legs  -- Lisabeth Jackson; title: My mother's poison  -- Amanda Hartley; title: Change room  -- Patricia McCowan; title: Fat genes  -- Anne Ptasznik; title: The giant Regina  -- Wendy A. Lewis; title: My so not ballerina boobs  -- Jennifer Filipowicz; title: Profanity  -- Karen Krossing; title: Bare  -- Claire Tacon; title: My mom is a freak  -- Ev Bishop; title: The cake princess -- Mar'ce Merrell.