My Big Nose and Other Natural Disasters

It's the end of junior year, and summer is about to begin. The Summer of Passion, to be exact, when Jory Michaels plans to explore all the possibilities of the future--and, with any luck, score a boyfriend in the process. But Jory has a problem. A big problem. A curvy, honking, bumpy, problem in the form of her Super Schnozz, the one thing standing between Jory and happiness. And now, with the Summer of Passion stretched before her like an open road, she's determined for Super Schnozz to disappear. Jory takes a job delivering wedding cakes to save up for a nose job at the end of the summer; she even keeps a book filled with magazine cutouts of perfect noses to show the doctor. But nothing is ever easy for accident-prone Jory--and before she knows it, her Summer of Passion falls apart faster than the delivery van she crashes. In this hilarious and heartbreaking novel, Sydney Salter delivers a story about broadening your horizons, accepting yourself, and finding love right under your nose.

Author: Sydney Salter
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 04/06/2009
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.00w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780152066437

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.4
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 130039 / My Big Nose and Other Natural Disasters


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/15/2009 pg. 54
Kirkus Review - Children 03/15/2009
Publishers Weekly 04/13/2009 pg. 50
School Library Journal 05/01/2009 pg. 118
Voice of Youth Advocates 06/01/2009 - Recommended - Readable

About the Author

SYDNEY SALTER is a graduate of the University of Washington Writer's Program in fiction and she currently serves as a Regional Advisor for the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators. My Big Nose is her first novel. She lives in Utah.