![]() ![]() When people want to quit, they have to choose. Lay your head down on the steering wheel and quit sneezing, quit breathing, quit trying.The problem is, you can't. ![]() What you really want to do is give up trying. It is also the story of Charlie's first real, heart-breaking friendship. The story of a 16-year-old loner named Charlie Calmont, his older brother Trent, and how they get by after both of their parents are gone. Awards for Jenkins's writing Yearĭelacorte Press Prize for a First YA NovelĬybils Award for Young Adult Speculative Fiction In 2005, Jenkins received the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, a stipend intended to grant a measure of financial freedom to a writer of children's or YA literature. Before writing full-time, she was a high school math teacher. She now lives in Benbrook with two of her three sons and assorted pets. Jenkins was born in 1961 and has lived all her life in Texas. Her novels have received considerable recognition, including the Delacorte Prize for Breaking Boxes, and a Printz Honor for Repossessed. Amanda McRaney Jenkins (born 1961) is an American writer of young adult fiction. ![]()
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