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Title: Book title needed
Post by: Helen on July 16, 2013, 06:19 AM

I usually keep a file of all the books that I have read, but for some reason I did not place this book in the list. I don't know the title, but the front cover has a trailer house on it. (Yeah, Helen, that's big help.)
The story is written in first person. The MC is a young girl who has been uprooted again by her mentally unstable mother, and they have moved into a shabby, dilapidated mobile home somewhere in New York.
The girl is very good at taking care of herself by necessity. She makes friends with the town locals who are unique and kind.  Her mother frequently leaves her alone, and the girl fears being taking away. She thinks of herself as stupid but she isn't. She yearns for the life she had with her stepfather who was a stable fixture in her life until her mother's instability forced him away. 
Ring any bells?

Title: Re: Book title needed
Post by: Helen on July 16, 2013, 06:26 AM

I answered myself....I went through the local public library's checkout records. God bless them!  It's called Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor. I am so relieved.

Title: Re: Book title needed
Post by: Dianna Winget on July 16, 2013, 07:13 AM

Glad you solved your own mystery. I hate it when a title escapes me like that.  :grin

Title: Re: Book title needed
Post by: Helen on July 16, 2013, 07:26 AM

It is bothersome since it had morphed into a 'brain book-worm' that would not let go of me. I needed the title for a class. (Helen wipes sweat from her brow.)

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Post by: Pons on July 16, 2013, 08:15 AM

Dang, this is the first Name That Title question that I've actually known the answer to - but you answered it yourself.  :)

Glad your mystery is solved.

Laurel

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Post by: KatyD on July 16, 2013, 09:11 AM

I actually had the answer to your question. :-) I loved that book.

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Post by: mrh on July 16, 2013, 10:26 AM

I also don't necessarily do so well on Name That Title, but I knew what you meant right away.

Which means Waiting for Normal has left quite the impression on many of us. :)

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Post by: Pons on July 16, 2013, 10:00 PM

Yes, I read Waiting for Normal and A Crooked Kind of Perfect back to back. It was a good week.

Title: Re: Book title needed
Post by: Bobi Martin on July 17, 2013, 04:53 AM

Kudos, Helen, for figuring out a way to get your own answer! But I'm glad you posted the question too! I hadn't heard of "Waiting for Normal" so it is now on my TBR list!

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Post by: Pons on July 17, 2013, 07:31 AM

I remember when Waiting for Normal came out. Several reviewers hated the cover. They said it was nondescript and that it wouldn't make an impression on anyone.

I think they may have been wrong.  :oops

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Post by: Leandra on July 17, 2013, 12:41 PM

Now, I'm curious- I'm gonna go hunt this book up on Goodreads!

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Post by: mmenzin on July 17, 2013, 02:35 PM

And what a great title--'Waiting for Normal'!  :)

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Post by: TH on July 17, 2013, 06:57 PM

It must be a Simon & Schuster imprint because I have it on my desk at work to analyze...and it is taking back seat to summer reading lists but now I'll have to spirit it away and home so I can read it. Sounds very much like something I'm working on....hopefully not TOO much like.

Glad you found your title!

Title: Re: Book title needed
Post by: Helen on July 17, 2013, 07:15 PM

When I researched Waiting for Normal on Amazon, it is being sold with two different covers. I prefer the mobile home cover.

Title: Re: Book title needed
Post by: Pons on July 18, 2013, 12:32 PM

I'm on my way over to Amazon to check out the other cover. :superwoman

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Post by: Liz Straw on July 18, 2013, 06:27 PM

This book must have made a huge impression on many of us, as soon as you said trailer and started with the rest of the description, I was going - oo, oo, oo.  Like a kid in a classroom.

I prefer the trailer cover to the one where she is on the swing also.

Glad you could answer your own question!

One of those times when you walk into the next room and can't figure out why your are there!   :lol4

Title: Re: Book title needed
Post by: Pons on July 20, 2013, 08:10 AM

I prefer the original blue cover, too.