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182 • YOUNG ADULT HARDCOVER
Winner of the 2006 Delacorte Press
Contest for a First Young Adult Novel!
Skin Deep
E. M. CRANE
IF ALL THE world’s a stage, Andrea Anderson is sitting in the audience.
High school has its predictable heroes, heroines, villains, and plotlines, and
Andrea has no problem guessing how each drama will turn out. She is,
after all, a professional spectator. In the social hierarchy she is a Nothing,
and at home her mother runs the show. All Andrea has to do is show up
every day and life basically plays out as scripted.
Then one day Andrea accepts a job. Honora Menapace—a reclusive
neighbor—is sick. As in every other aspect of her life, Andrea’s role is clear:
Honora’s garden must be taken care of and her pottery finished, and
someone needs to feed her dog, Zena. But what starts out as a simple job
yanks Andrea’s back-row seat out from under her. Life is no longer
predictable, and nothing is what it seems. Light is dark, villains are heroes,
and what she once saw as ugly is too beautiful for words. Andrea must face
the fact that life at first glance doesn’t even crack the surface.
E. M. Crane is the winner of the 2006 Delacorte Press Contest for a First
Young Adult Novel. She lives in Sackets Harbor, New York, where she is a fulltime
writer. Skin Deep is her first book for young readers.