Ten Miles Past Normal
by Frances O'Roark Dowell

Janie Gorman strives to be a normal high school freshman, but the fact that she lives on a goat farm doesn't help her much in her quest for "normal." She hops on the school bus smelling of goat poop (thanks to her morning chore of milking the goats), and she eats lunch in the library, because none of her friends have the same lunch period as her. To make matters worse, Janie's mom insists on writing an extremely embarrassing blog about "farm life." None of these trials are made any easier by Janie's knowledge that she was the one who recommended the move to the farm in the first place!