Big Girl Small, Rachel DeWoskin
Big Girl Small, Rachel DeWoskin
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Big Girl Small

Author: Rachel DeWoskin

Narrator: Tai Sammons

Unabridged: 9 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/11/2011

Synopsis

Judy Lohden is your aboveaverage sixteenyearold: sarcastic and vulnerable, talented and uncertain, full of big dreams for a big future. With a singing voice that can shake an auditorium, she should be the star of Darcy Arts Academy, the local performingarts high school. So why is a girl this promising hiding out in a seedy motel room on the edge of town? The fact that the national media is on her trail after a controversy that might bring down the whole school could have something to do with it. And that scandal has somethingbut not everythingto do with the fact that Judy is three feet nine inches tall. Rachel DeWoskin remembers everything about high school: the auditions (painful), the parents (hovering), the dissection projects (compelling), the friends (outcasts), the boys (crushable), and the girls (complicated), and she lays it all out with a wit and wistfulness that is half Holden Caulfield, half Lee Fiora, Preps ironic heroine. Big Girl Small is a scathingly funny and moving book about dreams and reality, at once light on its feet and unwaveringly serious.

About Rachel DeWoskin

Rachel DeWoskin is the author of the novel Repeat after Me and of Foreign Babes in Beijing, a memoir about her inadvertent notoriety as the star of a Chinese soap opera. She lives in New York City and Beijing and is at work on her fourth book, Statutory.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara on April 10, 2014

As a mother of a 17 year old daughter, I thoroughly enjoyed the protagonist voice of 16 year old Judy Lohden. Rachel DeWoskin captures the crazy way the teen brain functions. Judy is a 16 year girl who just transferred to a performing arts private school. She wants to fit in desperately. She’s a goo......more

Goodreads review by Jojo on July 04, 2011

Really 1.5 stars. At times, the writing was so bad, I wondered how this could've gotten published without some serious revision. I get that the author was going for a conversational tone, as in Catcher, but close reading of Holden's angsty words reveal so much depth that I can teach that book over an......more

Goodreads review by Cyndie on January 31, 2022

Interesting idea. The main character is an adolescent who is a dwarf. After not enjoying the school she is attending her parents decide to move her to one that is all about the arts since Judy has a singing talent. Unlike at her last school she makes some friends and is actually feeling more comfort......more

Goodreads review by Hope on March 01, 2012

2012 Alex winner. (The Alex award is given to up to 10 books annually that were published for adults but which also have potential teen appeal.) Judy is a dwarf (or little person or person of short stature, NOT a "midget.") She is a good writer and has a knock-out singing voice, so she was accepted t......more

Goodreads review by T. on May 30, 2011

The premise of this novel is what most intrigued me: a sixteen year old dwarf involved in a high school scandal. But it was the voice of the narrator that captivated me. I really loved Judy; her self-awareness was both refreshing and heart-breaking. The plot was handled deftly, and the suspense of b......more

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