Ten Miles Past Normal / Frances Dowell / 211 pages

Be careful what you wish for!  Janie Gorman expresses a desire to live on a farm and her wish is granted!  Now she lives on a goat farm and unfortunately stinks up the school bus one morning when she has inadvertently stepped in goat droppings.  She has resigned herself to being a loner and eats lunch every day in the library.  She wants to just be normal and decides to join Jam Band claiming to know how to play bass.  Janie learns that normal is way overrated and that she would much rather "live large."