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North of beautiful

Author: Justina Chen Headley
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : Secondary (senior high) school : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Terra, a sensitive, artistic high school senior born with a facial port-wine stain, struggles with issues of inner and outer beauty with the help of her Goth classmate Jacob.
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Genre/Form: Young adult fiction
Juvenile fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Secondary (senior high) school
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Justina Chen Headley
ISBN: 9780316025058 0316025054
OCLC Number: 222663458
Description: 373 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Fate maps --
X marks my spot --
Reference points --
God's wings --
T-o maps --
Trap streets --
The topography of guilt --
Longitude --
Orientation --
Dead reckoning --
Mother map --
Gerrymandering --
Boreas --
Orienteering --
Here be dragons --
Deaccessioning --
Aphrodite terra --
Hot maps --
Orienteering for girls --
Large-scale maps --
Keys --
Bearings --
Cartouche --
Wanderlust --
Prime meridian --
Mappery --
New world --
Pathfinder --
Cartographic lies --
Large-scale maps --
The great trigonometrical survey --
Magnetic north --
True north --
Theatrum orbis terrarum --
Geographia --
Acknowledgments.
Responsibility: Justina Chen Headley.

Abstract:

Terra, a sensitive, artistic high school senior born with a facial port-wine stain, struggles with issues of inner and outer beauty with the help of her Goth classmate Jacob.

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Beautiful story

by AnchorageSchools (WorldCat user published 2009-04-27) Very Good Permalink

Terra was born with a facial birthmark which makes her self-conscious and her verbally abusive father makes her question her selfworth.  Then Terra meets Jacob who has a cleft palette scar. As they grow closer Terra learns more about what beauty truly is and that she has strenth within her to...
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