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It's August 1965 and Kobie Roberts and her best friend Gretchen Farris have both just turned 13 earlier in the summer (Gretchen in June, Kobie in July). But during their families' vacation in Ocean City, Maryland, Kobie really FEELS like she's officially turned 13 and life is really taking off. She has just heard the Byrds' "Mr. Tambourine Man" for the first time...and the song has really "spoken" to her. Gretchen's the one who follows the Top 40, and Kobie had only been paying attention to try to keep up, but "Mr. Tambourine Man" reaches out and grabs her. She's ready to be 13 and take her place in the world!
Then vacation is over and it's back to the "boonies" of Willow Springs, Virginia, where summer vacation is soon over and Kobie, unwillingly clad in The Ugliest Dress in the World, is headed to her first day of eighth grade. It's a good thing she has Gretchen, but why does Gretchen fall in with "the in-crowd" and Kobie keeps having to battle her locker door and a runty little locker neighbor? Nothing she does is right. She somehow manages to get a reasonable facsimile of the latest "in" outfit (Carnaby Street knockoff) for the first school dance, but her hair doesn't turn out right and neither do her social skills. Gretchen triumphs--for which they should both rejoice...
...see, back in Ocean City they had stopped at a mechanical gypsy-fortune-teller, and Gretchen had gotten kind of a downer fortune. There was so much else going on (like "Mr. Tambourine Man" and, oh, OLDER GUYS!!!!) that they'd soon forgotten about it, but around Thanksgiving time, Gretchen's "fortune" seems to come true...horribly so. Now Kobie is left to navigate eighth grade alone; Gretchen's friends only put up with her for Gretchen's sake. It's a good thing she has her interest in drawing cartoons, and it's a good thing she has "Mr. Tambourine Man" running through her head, since she doesn't have a record player.
This is a very funny book. You just have to read it for yourself. THIRTEEN came out in 1986, and Ransom, who tells Kobie's story in the first person, dedicates it to "my mother, who had to put up with me"--is this based on HER life? And if so--is it wildly exaggerated, or THISCLOSE to how things really happened? Actually, I read its sequel first, FOURTEEN AND HOLDING, which I thought was funnier. Kobie is navigating 9th grade alone; the school is woefully overcrowded with students coming from several area junior-highs; Kobie tries to get in with the popular group but runs afoul of a tough bleached-blonde biker chick who happens to be in her two worst classes; she campaigns for the bedroom of her dreams; she keeps trying to participate in the latest fads with varying degrees of success...does this sound like anyone's memories of being THIRTEEN and FOURTEEN? It sounds a million miles away from that 2003 movie THIRTEEN with Evan Rachel Wood and, yes, Vanessa Anne Hudgens...so it might be worth a therapeutic read today.
