| Acceptance Contributor(s): Coll, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312426968 ISBN-13: 9780312426965 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $20.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2008 Annotation: A comic chronicle of a year in the life in the college admissions cycle, and the frantic rush of students and parents to do something--anything--to distinguish themselves. For all, the price of admission requires compromise; for a few, the ordeal blossoms into an unexpected journey of discovery. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.85 lbs) 320 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 116026 Reading Level: 8.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 21.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Acceptance is a satire of America's overachievers, a novel set over one year in the college application process, when students and parents surrender their evenings, their weekends, and their sanity to the race for admission. Maya, Taylor, and AP Harry (so named for all the advanced placement courses under his belt) are high school students in a Washington, D.C. suburb called Verona, each gunning for admission to the most prestigious colleges. Olivia is an overworked admissions officer, under siege from applications and every kind of desperate appeal. The application process threatens to overrun all of their lives, and Acceptance follows each character's struggle for their sanity against the relentless pressure of competition. |
Contributor Bio(s): Coll, Susan: - Susan Coll is the Events and Programs Director at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. She is the author of the novels Beach Week, Acceptance, Rockville Pike, and karlmarx.com. Acceptance was made into a television movie starring Joan Cusack in 2009. She lives in Washington, D.C. |