Mission Impossible (Northern Lights Books for Children) [Paperback]

Beth Goobie (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 10, 2002 | Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up | Series: Northern Lights Books for Children

Nominee, Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature - Text

Jill Gilbert doesn't like the high school Lovely Legs Contest. For one thing, it's sponsored by the football team headed by her brother. For another, the school newspaper she writes for came up with the idea. But more important, it boils her blood that guys like her brother make so many assumptions about what girls like.

So why does she end up entering the competition? Maybe for the same reason she tried out for the football team. Maybe for the same reason she's obsessed with the movie The Mission. Jill is nobody's pushover.

Mission Impossible is a tough sensitive teen novel. Jill, the narrator, is wickedly funny and heartbreakingly honest as she wrestles with sexism in her school and demons in her head. She comes close to going over the edge in more ways than one but triumphs in a way she could never have predicted. Right now, though, she's stuck in a jungle of tangled thoughts and leg hairs on what seems like an impossible mission.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Tough yet sensitive; it speaks to serious young women with questioning minds."
-- Kliatt

"Jill articulates the feelings and fears of young women in a way that even the most macho football captain would find difficult to ignore."
--"Calgary Herald

"This is an intelligent book. . . . Promote Mission Impossible, hand it out, and read it yourself. It'll make the incredible tensions of the world of high school much more comprehensible."
-- Quill & Quire, Starred Review

About the Author

Beth Goobie is a Red Deer Press author.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Red Deer Press; 1 edition (September 10, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0889951144
• ISBN-13: 978-0889951143
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,156,521 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Book I've ever read!, March 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Mission Impossible (Northern Lights Books for Children) (Paperback)

This book has thrills and spills. This novel makes you feel like you are in the Paramount Motion Picture MISION: IMPOSIBLE. Buy this book NOW!

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book!, April 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Mission Impossible (Northern Lights Books for Children) (Paperback)

The book is realistic and tells the back ground on the people that are in it !

1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars mission:impossible, March 15, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Mission Impossible (Northern Lights Books for Children) (Paperback)

"mission:impossible" is very good book! I read this book.And I feel very well.I saw a movie about this book.You know the book is the movie ,and that are same name. I like this book and all like this book. So "mission:impossible" is my No.1 best book. there are many question when you read this book!