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      Ugly to Start With

      by John Michael Cummings
      Published
      Oct 2011
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      178
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      Jason Stevens is growing up in picturesque, historic Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in the 1970s. Back when the roads are smaller, the cars slower, the people more colorful, and Washington, D.C. is way across the mountainsâ€"a winding sixty-five miles away.
       
      Jason dreams of going to art school in the city, but he must first survive his teenage years. He witnesses a street artist from Italy charm his mother from the backseat of the family car. He stands up to an abusive husbandâ€"and then feels sorry for the jerk. He puts up with his father’s hard-skulled backwoods ways, his grandfather’s showy younger wife, and the fist-throwing schoolmates and eccentric mountain characters that make up Harpers Ferryâ€"all topped off by a basement art project with a girl from the poor side of town.
       
      Ugly to Start With punctuates the exuberant highs, bewildering midpoints, and painful lows of growing up, and affirms that adolescent dreams and desires are often fulfilled in surprising ways.

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      General Fiction

      Age Level

      Young Adult / Teens

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      Oct 2011 Vandalia Press ISBN 193597808X
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