Braces, Gym Suits, and Early Morning Seminary: A Youthquake Survival Manual

Louisa Barker has a simple plan; She wants to survive her teens. Despite predicaments which seem guaranteed to give her terminal humiliation. Louisa knows that she can rise above it all and be a winner. Though surrounded by classmates whose grandest goals are to get an even tan and some front row tickets to a rock concert, Louisa has greater dreams. Despite two aunts and a niece whose sole missions appear to be the creation of disconfort throughout the universe, Louisa wants to love her family. Despite encroaching laziness, vanity, pessimism, and spiritual starvation, Louisa wants to emerge from her teens with minimal scrapes and bruises, and maximal wisdom and happiness. Here she shares her discoveries, her formula for conquering the myths of youth, and the laughter she's found along the way.