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Rivers, Karen.
THE HEALING TIME OF HICKEYS
Vancouver : Polestar, 2003.
IL YA
ISBN 1551926008
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 This is going to be "The Greatest Year of My Life aka TGYML" according to senior Haley Andromeda.  So, inspired by Bridget Jones, she begins a diary to record everything that is going to happen.  Through her diary, we meet her hippie father who makes a living selling marijuana.  We find out about Haley's hypcochrondia.  And we find out about the love of her life, JT.  Unfortunately, JT doesn't even know she exists.  But she is determined to change that.  Things really do change when Haley's father is arrested, Haley gets chicken pox and then she finds out about how long it takes a hickey to heal!
SUBJECTS:     High school students -- Fiction.
                        Family life -- Fiction.
                        Diaries -- Fiction.
                        Girls -- Fiction.
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