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Just the Way You Are
Katie Parker
Springville, UT: Spring Creek Book Company, 2005
- Katie Parker: Author
Novel, Young Adult Fiction
LaNae has a big secret…her name isn’t really LaNae.
She wants to begin college with a new identity, hoping to shed her klutzy old self and appear to others—especially cute returned missionaries—as an attractive, self-assured woman.
But it isn’t as easy as she hopes. She just seems to get herself into one scrape after another, and Prince Charming still isn’t exactly pounding on her door. Or is he? Can she ever be anyone besides who she really is?
Then there is Jane, who lives in the dorms with LaNae. If the pressures of freshman college courses weren’t enough, she is discovering that life and the people around her don’t always conform to her perfect model. From the Baptists down the hall, to the cafeteria food fights and her friend Kimber’s blue hair, no one is what she had expected.
Join LaNae and Jane as they discover that the most important things you learn at college aren’t always in the classroom. [from publisher's web site]
296 pp.