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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Goodnight Irene

Goodnight Irene

Felts, Jeannie D.

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1494975815
ISBN13: 9781494975814
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 13 2014
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Irene Shelton was from a rural South Carolina island. Her family moved to Charlotte when she was in High School at a time when fitting in and peer pressure are what controls the lives of all teenagers. Irene was beautiful, smart, artsy, opinionated, outspoken and very poor - and she didn't fit in at her new school, in fact, she stood out like a sore thumb! Almost from her first day at school she was bullied and mistreated by the rich kids that made up the cruelest, most feared clique in the school - the snob club - and in this true accounting of these events - names changed to protect the guilty - she is rescued by the most unexpected person imaginable - another one of their victims. Irene manages to get through all of this with the help of her best friend Jen - the narrator of her story. Irene, who is an excellent student with top grades, has made a secret pact for relief with her snob club tormentors that backfires. She finds herself in a position where if she reveals what she is doing it could impact her ability to get a college scholarship - the only hope she has to break the cycle of poverty for herself. Her actions could be classified as criminal, or so she was told, so she is trapped in a continuous round of servitude to the snob club until her dramatic rescue. Irene's story takes place in the 1960s and those troubled times are a factor in her story. From the emergence of the baby boomers as a force of nature in the United States, through the death of a beloved President, the Vietnam War and after, Irene's life events reflect what was going on around her. But the story is not about the times - though they are always in evidence - it's about Irene's life that begins to go off the tracks at one point and how she recovers.

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