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 The Plain Janes - Cecil Castellucci
 The Plain Janes - Cecil Castellucci ... 2007-07-27 by Titan Books LtdNewest Review: ... on the cover. She writes to him regularly, and we see these letters in the book. Jane decides to see if art can save, to try ... more ... to make the outside world more beautiful for her, and the Janes become an art gang, called P. L. A. I. N. - People Loving Art In Neighbourhoods. They start sneaking around at night, creating public artworks - like putting bubbles in fountains and a whole load of garden gnomes together - but since the bomb went off in Metro City, people have closed their minds and they are frightened by the anonymous displays, leading to curfews and police warnings...
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The Plain Janes - Cecil Castellucci: People Loving Art In Neighbourhoods (637 words)
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After a terrorist attack in her old home, Metro City, Jane Beckles' parents decide to move away to the suburban town of Kent Waters. She joins the local school and decides that she doesn't want to have the superficial friendships she had in Metro City any more. When the most popular girl in school invites her to sit at her table, Jane walks away, choosing to eat with the group of misfit girls instead. She asks them their names and decides that she, Theatre Jane, brainy Jayne, and sporty Polly Jane should be a gang immediately. Jane is still making trips back to Metro City - when the bomb exploded she found herself lying in the street beside a man who is now in ... Read the complete review
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