Define "Normal" | Plot Summary

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When Antonia Dillon takes a student job as a peer counselor at her middle school, she finds herself in a counseling session with Jazz Luther, a punker who appears to be rude and intolerable. Antonia plays by the rules; she dresses conservatively and devotes herself to getting good grades in school. Jazz, on the other hand, wears black lipstick, has piercings and tattoos, and rebels against everything. These two seemingly opposite teenagers appear to have nothing in common, yet during the course of their counseling sessions they find themselves opening up to each other and becoming friends. Antonia and Jazz both gain emotional maturity as they learn to relate to each other and help each other cope with their problems. Each helps the other view their own issues from a different perspective, and by the end of the novel they have both grown up in surprising ways.

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