Nominee, Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature - Text Jill Gilbert doesn't like the high school Lovely Legs Contest. For one thing, it's sponsored by the football team headed by her brother. For another, the school newspaper she writes for came up with the idea. But more important, it boils her blood that guys like her brother make so many assumptions about what girls like. So why does she end up entering the competition? Maybe for the same reason she tried out for the football team. Maybe for the same reason she's obsessed with the movie The Mission . Jill is nobody's pushover. Mission Impossible is a tough sensitive teen novel. Jill, the narrator, is wickedly funny and heartbreakingly honest as she wrestles with sexism in her school and demons in her head. She comes close to going over the edge in more ways than one but triumphs in a way she could never have predicted. Right now, though, she's stuck in a jungle of tangled thoughts and leg hairs on what seems like an impossible mission.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Trifolium Books, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0889951144
ISBN-13
9780889951143
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1537551
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mission Impossible
Author
Beth Goobie
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Social Themes / Adolescence, Television / General, General, Social Themes / Values & Virtues, Social Themes / Peer Pressure
Intended Audience
Young Adults
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Juvenile Fiction, Performing Arts, Fiction
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
5in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
6.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Grade from
Tenth Grade
Grade to
Up
Reviews
"Tough yet sensitive; it speaks to serious young women with questioning minds." -- Kliatt "Jill articulates the feelings and fears of young women in a way that even the most macho football captain would find difficult to ignore." --" Calgary Herald "This is an intelligent book. . . . Promote Mission Impossible , hand it out, and read it yourself. It'll make the incredible tensions of the world of high school much more comprehensible." -- Quill & Quire, Starred Review