Vegan Virgin Valentine (21 page)
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Authors: Carolyn Mackler
Mike
– father. Keen golfer. Whistles at skinny women on TV.
Byron and Anaïs
– older brother and sister. Gorgeous, clever and impossible to live up to.
Phyllis
– mother. Exercise fiend. Adolescent psychologist. Thinks she knows how a teenager’s brain operates.
Virginia
– loves web chatrooms and cheesy movies. Hates mirrors, working out and the popular crowd. Has a “larger-than-average” body and a medium-sized inferiority complex.
Virginia thinks the world of everyone but herself. Then a phone call changes everything…
W
INNER OF A
M
ICHAEL
L. P
RINTZ
H
ONOR
Carolyn Mackler is the author of the popular teen novels
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things
(winner of a Michael L. Printz Honor) and
Love and Other Four-Letter Words
. She has also written short stories and feature articles for numerous magazines. Of
Vegan Virgin Valentine
she says, “Mara Valentine first came to me in a short story. I loved how she was so rigid, but at the same time hungering to break out. And V goes back about a decade, when I met these two girls who were aunt and niece. They’ve always stuck with me. Imagine how wild it would be to have an aunt and a niece the same age! What if they were total opposites? I knew V was exactly what Mara needed to shake up the status quo.”
Carolyn lives with her husband in New York City. Visit her online at
www.carolynmackler.com
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.
First published 2004 by Walker Books Ltd
87 Vauxhall Walk, London SE11 5HJ
Text © 2004 Carolyn Mackler
Cover design by Walker Books Ltd
The right of Carolyn Mackler to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, taping and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data: a catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 978-1-4063-3669-6 (ePub)
ISBN 978-1-4063-3670-2 (e-PDF)