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    Onion Girl

    By Lorri-Sue Vodi

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    Syd Callens moves to Augusta, GA six weeks before the start of ninth grade and her beloved father’s funeral. She’s overwhelmed by the city of 200,000, which compared to Vidalia, is a crazy-paced cultural mecca. Syd stubbornly withdraws, refusing to cry at her daddy’s burial: “I didn’t cry when he got sick and I didn’t cry when he got sicker. I was only angry that he left me.”

    She wallows in grief, resisting help from her mother or anyone on the outside, including an extension of friendship from Seth, her first crush—a boy who’s already spoken for and whose eyes look like the deep end of the pool. She also deals with the ensuing humiliation that comes when a girl realizes that everyone at school has mistaken her for a boy.

    Syd feels an instant connection to Mel, a fellow oddball who clunks around Greenbrier in army boots and dresses. The attraction turns to mistrust however, when Mel divulges a secret Sydney takes for a lie. The girls are mere inches from forging a friendship but then Mel mysteriously disappears, leaving Sydney alone to wonder what happened and to face daily abuse from Greenbrier’s two meanest bullies—Ashley and Megan.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMelange Books, LLC
    Release dateFeb 23, 2016
    ISBN9781680462333
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    Onion Girl
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    Lorri-Sue Vodi

    Lorri-Sue Vodi is a creative writing graduate and English Literature teacher at American Preparatory Academy where she teaches literary archetypes, academic composition and parts of speech. As far back as she can recall, Lorri-Sue has been a big fan of stories; the first one she remembers hearing is Petunia—an epic bedtime tale about a messy girl who refuses to clean her room—one which Lorri-Sue’s mother likely invented out of pure desperation. Lorri-Sue’s short stories and poetry appear in literary magazines such as The Montreal Review, Anemone Sidecar, The Black Boot and Pastiche Magazine. Lorri-sue finds most of her inspiration through adventures and misadventures with her daughters. Onion Girl is Lorri’s first novel.

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