![]() ![]() ![]() A respectable job, Mary Janes mother says. Shy, quiet, and bookish, shes glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her familys subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month record club. Nick Hornby Almost Famous meets Daisy Jones and The Six in this funny, wise, and tender novel about a fourteen-year-old girls coming of age in 1970s Baltimore, caught between her straight-laced family and the progressive family she nannies for-who happen to be secretly hiding a famous rock star and his movie star wife for the summer. Book Synopsis I LOVED this novel.If you have ever sung along to a hit on the radio, in any decade, then you will devour Mary Jane at 45 rpm. ![]()
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