Tilt - Tapa blanda

"Stan found himself flipping through the book, past cell division, past photosynthesis, past the organs of digestion . . . to the human reproductive system.

"The page just fell open: The Female Reproductive Organs. They were fantastical shapes in yellow, pink, orange, blue. Like flowers and gourds stuck up inside shadowy female flesh. It was a brand new book so no previous student had had time to scribble foolishness on the pictures."
-- from the book

"A tender, funny, and insightful coming-of-age story."
The Horn Book Magazine"

When imaginative sixteen-year-old Stan's simple dreams of making the JV basketball team fall through, he finds himself aware of the unexpected attention of mysterious Janine Igwash, just as his father and four-year-old half brother arrive on the scene.