Squashed

Humor, agriculture and young love all come together in Joan Bauer''s first novel, set in rural Iowa. Sixteen-year-old  Ellie Morgan''s life would be almost perfect if she could just get her potentially prize-winning pumpkin to put on about 200 more pounds--and if she could take off 20 herself...in hopes of attracting Wes, the new boy in town.



Ninth Annual Delacorte Press Prize for an Outstanding First Young Adult Novel.