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Overview

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
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Overview

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 her hilarious and heartbreaking debut novel, Sydney Salter delivers a story about broadening your horizons, accepting yourself, and finding love right under your nose.

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The tougher side of catching a boyfriend is depicted with humor and understanding in this first novel. Sharp-witted, accident-prone Jory Michaels knows she is klutzy, but she is more apt to blame her "Super Schnozz" than her clumsiness for her nonexistent love life. The summer after her junior year in high school, she hopes to decrease her "99.9 percent" chance of "dying a virgin" by saving up for a nose job and winning the heart of cute classmate Tyler. Nothing goes as planned, and the results are simultaneously painful and hilarious. Salter captures the awkwardness of adolescence while driving home a message about self-acceptance. Jory's all-too-perfect athlete brother and image-conscious mother act as effective foils to the heroine, while her friends Megan and Hannah are reminders that no one is perfect. If Jory's missteps and disasters become a little redundant, her responses to misfortune remain fresh. Ages 12-up. (Apr.)

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Jory Michaels is convinced her big nose, "Super Schnozz" as she calls it, is ruining her life. The summer before her senior year, Jory has three goals: to not die a virgin; to find something at which she is good and about which she is passionate; and to get a nose job. To afford plastic surgery, Jory takes a stressful job as a delivery van driver for a wedding cake business, but job frustrations are nothing compared to the summer's other traumas. Her best friend, Megan, starts dating Tyler, the extremely cute guy on whom Jory has had a crush for more than a year. Other quests for romance end in disaster, and Jory learns the hard way that alcohol and boys can be a dangerous mix. Jory does experience hope when she meets Gideon, but as their signals always get mixed, Jory cannot tell if he is really interested in her. Jory's attempts to find her passion, including painfully embarrassing experiences with yoga and foreign cinema, also end in failure. Although insecurity is something to which every teen can relate, Jory is so self-pitying that she mostly comes across as whiny, and the humor often falls flat. When things do start to turn around for Jory, it is predictable (Gideon really IS a wonderful guy), and problems get wrapped up too neatly (Jory and her mom magically bond by taking a beading class). Teen readers might find this book a quick and enjoyable read, but it covers familiar territory handled better elsewhere. Reviewer: Amy Luedtke
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Children's Literature
Seventeen-year-old Jory finds herself in the midst of typical teen angst. She obsesses over everything from her looks to her popularity status to her crush. She decides to take matters into her own hands and finds a summer job that will help fund her future nose job. She is certain that once the Super Schnozz has been tamed, everything else in her life will fall magically into place. Even the most seemingly safe relationships become confusing and perplexing the summer before her senior year of high school. Not only are friendships and relationships with the opposite sex explored, so are the sometimes tumultuous times between a mother and daughter. Teenagers will relate to the many accordant themes running through this novel. Salter creates believable and relevant dialogue between her characters that is age appropriate. She also brings to life a variety of topics through the many characters; topics that most teens will appreciate. Reviewer: Summer Whiting
School Library Journal

Gr 9 Up

It's the summer before senior year and Jory is obsessing over two things: her giant nose and hottie Tyler Briggs. Believing that she can't have Tyler and a "Super Schnozz," she takes a job delivering cakes to save money for surgery. During a delivery, she meets Gideon, a guy with big brown eyes and an equally big nose. She's attracted to him, but is worried about what dating him will do to her social status. To complicate matters, Jory and her friend Megan compete for Tyler's attentions while Jory's mother, in an effort to be thin, forces her family to join her in crazy fad diets. As the pressure mounts, the teen, who begins to date Gideon, desperately looks to guys for validation and naively believes that a perfect nose will beget a perfect life. Readers will identify with her insecurities, but might be turned off by her melodrama. The humor is forced and the character development superficial. Salter literally writes off the unattainable Tyler just as his story line gets interesting. Teens looking for a character with a big nose and an even bigger sense of humor should read Emily Franklin's At Face Value (Flux, 2008), which features a modern-day Cyrano de Bergerac. My Big Nose is strictly an additional purchase.-Kimberly Garnick Giarratano, Rockaway Township Public Library, NJ

Kirkus Reviews
In the well-heeled, hardly diverse suburbs of Reno, Nev., Jory Michaels has two big goals for the summer before senior year: to earn enough money to get the petite nose she's always wanted and to lose her virginity. Significant obstacles to each: She's a somewhat clumsy driver, so her job driving a bakery delivery van has its limits, and she's a good-natured girl looking for a romantic connection with a boy, not just a physical encounter. Jory's longtime crush is finally paying attention to her, but it turns out he is struggling with hiding his gay identity from his father. Another boy's aggressive approach is off-putting even as Jory's encounter with his unzipped shorts is cringingly funny. Several missed opportunities with a third and most likely lad have a sweetly comic dimension, while Jory's first experiences with drinking demonstrate without didacticism the downside of impaired socializing. Complex, likable, believable characters and a fresh, appealing fictional voice pull together this very agreeable summer romance. (Fiction. YA)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780547488967
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Publication date: 4/6/2009
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 352
  • Sales rank: 557,524
  • Age range: 12 years
  • File size: 200 KB

Meet the Author

SYDNEY SALTER is the author of My Big Nose and Other Natural Disasters and Jungle Crossing. She lives in Utah. sydneysalter.com

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