About this Book: |
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In the school handbook, they forgot to mention that there are two types of people in middle school – us and them… and we are not so different – the keys.
Keys is the year of scoliosis checks, fiesta pizza, braces, and popularity; the year we became latch key kids; the year I learned the difference between us and them; the year we became the keys.
Keys is a coming-of-age story that takes us through the front doors of middle school and into the swimmer’s dive position as Nurse Ollie molds our spines with a gloved hand – the scoliosis check.
Jordan Mackay enters middle school armed with two things – the house key that she wears around her neck and the one piece of advice that her former homecoming-queen older sister, Sheila gave her, "you can tell how popular a person is by how many pages they are on in the yearbook". This is the story about us and them, and then we… the year Jordan coined the term the keys. What Jordan discovers in her first year of middle school is that while popularity can be measured in yearbook pages, friendship and character cannot.
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About the Author: |
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Jennifer Moricz Goodwin is the niece of Hungarian author, Zsigmond Moricz. She is a graduate of Florida State University’s Film School and received her Master’s Degree in Education from William Carey College. She has written eleven screenplays and has been published in Coast magazine. She is the Producer of the award-winning children’s film, Ethan’s Tuesday. Jennifer has taught Drama, Speech, Debate and Middle School English and Reading for the past five years. And she is active in her church as a Sunday school teacher of middle-school girls.
With her undergraduate degree in film making, she also has a vision to turn her books into movies. Her production company, Sunkist Productions, will be named after her hometown neighborhood in Biloxi, Mississippi, the setting for Keys.
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