"Jane Sinner snarked her way into my heart, and she's never leaving. Prepare to fall hard for this hilarious, heartfelt gem of a book."тАФBecky┬аAlbertalli, author of Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda
ItтАЩs Kind of a Funny Story meets Daria in the darkly hilarious tale of a teenтАЩs attempt to remake her public image and restore inner peace through reality TV. The only thing 17-year-old Jane Sinner hates more┬аthan failure is pity. After a personal crisis and her┬аsubsequent expulsion┬аfrom high school, sheтАЩs going nowhere fast.┬аJaneтАЩs well-meaning parents push her to attend a high┬аschool completion program at the┬аnearby Elbow River Community┬аCollege, and she agrees, on one condition: she gets to move out.
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Jane tackles her housing problem by signing up┬аfor┬аHouse of Orange, a student-run reality show that is┬аbasically┬аBig Brother, but for┬аElbow River┬аStudents. Living away from home, the chance to win a car (used, but┬аwhatever), and a campus full of people who don't┬аknow what she did in┬аhigh schoolтАж what more could she want? Okay, maybe a family that┬аunderstands why sheтАЩd rather turn to Freud┬аthan Jesus to make sense┬аof her life, but she'll settle for fifteen minutes in the proverbial spotlight.
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As┬аHouse of Orange┬аgrows from a┬аlow-budget web series to a local TV show with fans and shoddy T-shirts,┬аJane finally has the chance to┬аlet her cynical, competitive nature┬аthrive. She'll use her growing fan base,┬аand whatever Intro┬аto Psychology can teach her, to prove to the worldтАФor at least viewers of substandard TVтАФthat she┬аhas what┬аit takes to win.