Into the Wild Nerd Yonder, (Paperback)

from kittyjay

The title intrigued me. The synopsis had me worried. The actual book... was great.Jessie is a clever, interesting teenage girl who has the added bonus of actually sounding like a real teenage girl. Young adult novels often apparently share the impression that the only thing teenage girls ever car...

from ewyatt

Can a book be cute and crass at the same time? Jessie is awesome. Pretty much her whole family is - she has a great big brother and parents. Her "best friends" that is another story. The trio she has grown up with is growing apart as her girls embrace the punk scene and her bestie betrays her. J...

from galleysmith

Into the Wild Nerd Yonder is an excellent story that demonstrates how childhood friends grow up and grow apart. Jessie has always been the nerdiest girl in her group of three - making her own skirts out of silly fabrics so as to wear a new one each day of the week - so when Bizza and Char start t...

from XNirvanaFreakX

As somewhat of a nerd myself, I have to say that I enjoyed this book quite a bit. The writing was fun and more of a laid back, conversational style that I felt conveyed Jessie's thoughts and experiences nicely, in a way that I could relate to. I loved the uniqueness of many of the characters (lik...

from ACQwoods

At 5:30 this Saturday, I walked upstairs and asked my husband "How do you know when a book was great?" He smirked at me and answered "I'm guessing it's when you just read the whole thing in two hours." He was right. I sat down Saturday afternoon with Into the Wild Nerd Yonder, not knowing what to...