"Am I beautiful? Aren't I beautiful?" asks fifteen-year-old Jagoda. Since selfies hadn't been invented in her time (lousy or great?), she can't look at herself on her phone. So she recreates her face with a pencil. She loves drawing, and although her father wants her to go to high school, Jagoda decides to go to a high school of design.
In addition, a million other things happen to her in a few days. The most important: she loves Dragi. This is the boy Jagoda bumps into in the middle of the city because she is daydreaming instead of looking straight ahead. Soon, like in some romantic movie, she meets Dragi everywhere and is already in the cinema with him, head over heels in love... But is he into her too? Dragi is jealous of Nejc, whom Jagoda helps meet his father, whom he didn't even know existed for fifteen years.
However, the father is not what Nejc would like... The girl also helps three birds without a nest, children whose parents left them alone because they went to Germany to earn money. Even if you already know Jagoda from the hit movie, you will only be able to discover the other million things that the girl bravely faces in the book...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Branka Jurec's work spanned almost the entire twentieth century (1914–1999). As a child, she had to flee from fascism from Koper to Maribor, and was interned twice in concentration camps. Despite this, her stories for children and young people are full of adventure, humor, and joy of life. She began her writing career with social literature for adults, but after the birth of her two children, she began to lean towards a younger audience. She created around 35 works for this audience.
Her teenage stories are best known. The crime-detective stories Uhač and his gang (1963) and Vohljači in provodane skrivensti (1966) describe the challenges that members of teenage gangs set for themselves and thus inadvertently come dangerously close to real criminal gangs. Branka Jurca is also known for her works for the youngest (such as S helikopterjem k stricu Tintinu, 1978; Anča Pomaranča, 1983). She amusingly described the unusual complications with choosing her name and determining her date of birth, schooling with nuns, and other childhood adventures in her autobiography Rodiš se samo enkrat (1972).
