That’s my long way of encouraging anyone with interest in such things to pick up a copy of the book. The Aqua Net Diaries: Big Hair, Big Dreams, Small Town is written by Jennifer Niven and published by Gallery Books. So, it’s great to see some hometown kids making good – particularly when they were (so far as I knew anyway) good kids who treated people well. Irresistibly charming and utterly true, The Aqua Net Diaries is one girls unique yet undeniably universal survival story of the best years of her life. I don’t suppose they have any particular memory of that – mighty seniors make a greater impact on lowly freshmen than the reverse.

As I recall, I wasn’t any good on the speech team at the time, but they were awfully nice to me anyway. Now, as luck would have it, I have warm memories of Jennifer and Joe who were, I believe, seniors, when I was a freshman on the school’s speech team. Holding Up the Universe (Jennifer Niven) ADVERTISEMENT. All the Bright Places (Jennifer Niven) 2339. Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic (Jennifer Niven) 2338. Jennifer Niven quit her job as a television producer to write the true story of a doomed 1913 Arctic expedition in her first book, The Ice Master, which was named one of the top ten nonfiction books by Entertainment Weekly, and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award. Joe’s brother was one of my sister’s best friends. The Aqua Net Diaries (Jennifer Niven) 2337. Apparently Jennifer’s buddy Joe Kraemer figures prominently in the story. The Palladium-Item has a write up by Rachel Sheeley.

My interest is that it was written by a woman, Jennifer Niven (nom de plume of Jennifer McJunkin) a couple of years ahead of me at Richmond High School in the 1980s. Jennifer Niven’s book, The Aqua Net Diaries, has just been released.

The Aqua Net Diaries by Jennifer Niven