Define "Normal"

Define "Normal"

Author: Julie Anne Peters

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (2000)

ISBN: 0316706310

3 (out of 5) STARS

Summary: Antonia accepts the opportunity to be a peer counselor to Jasmine "Jazz" Luther. Although Antonia and Jazz are very different they discover they have much in common and are able to help each other and become good friends.

Review: “I opened the door and froze. Not Jazz Luther. Couldn’t be. Impossible. My jaw stuck in the gape-open position.

‘What are you looking at?’ Jazz sneered at me.

Your purple hair? Your black lips? Your shredded jeans? ‘Nothing,’ I muttered.

‘You my peer counselor?’ Jazz asked, clunking anklehigh boots up onto the conference table. She tipped back the chair and threaded her fingers together behind her head.

My stomach knotted. ‘Guess so.’ I thought, Define ‘peer.’

Jazz snorted. She must’ve had the same thought.”

Dr. DiLeo, the school counselor, had asked Antonia if she would be a peer counselor, but he certainly did not tell her it would be counseling Jasmine Luther. On the surface it appears that Antonia and Jazz have absolutely nothing in common. Yet as the book unfolds it becomes clear they have much more in common than initially seen.