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The Small Crimes of Tiffany Templeton Kindle Edition

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The Serpent King meets Girl in Pieces in this moving and darkly funny story about a teenage girl coming of age and learning how to grieve in small-town Montana.

Tiffany Templeton is tough. She dresses exclusively in black, buys leather jackets that are several sizes too big, and never backs down from a fight. She's known in her tiny Montana town as Tough Tiff, and after her shoplifting arrest and a stint in a reform school, the nickname is here to stay.

But when she comes back home, Tiffany may not be the same old Tough Tiff that everybody remembers. Her life is different now: her mother keeps her on an even shorter leash than before, she meets with a probation officer once a month, and she's still grieving her father's recent death.

As Tiffany navigates her new life and learns who she wants to be, she must also contend with an overbearing best friend, the geriatric cast of a high-maintenance drama production, her first boyfriend, and a town full of eccentric neighbors--not to mention a dark secret she's been keeping about why the ex-football coach left town.

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"Fifield succeeds in delivering a cast of quirky, unpredictable characters and an intriguing plot." —Kirkus

"Fifield is a promising new voice in YA." —Booklist

“Tiffany Templeton may be tough, but her story is equal parts humor and heart.” —Preston Norton, author of Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe

“From the very first page, I wanted to be friends with Tiffany Templeton: she’s wry, she’s funny—but what surprised me most is her enormous heart. Richard Fifield has given us a fresh take on a classic story of coming of age, one that's filled with humor, compassion, and a few small crimes.” —Grant Ginder, author of The People We Hate at the Wedding and Honestly, We Meant Well

“In this small Montana town with more big problems, secrets, and personalities than Times Square, Tiffany Templeton is the biggest personality of all. Along with a gift for comedy and creating lovable eccentrics, Fifield gives his story real depth and an immense amount of heart. It would be a small crime to miss out on this joyously compassionate novel.” —Stephen McCauley, author of My Ex-Life

“Filled with insight and complex, heartfelt characters, The Small Crimes of Tiffany Templeton is a jewel among novels, both darkly humorous and deeply revealing. Richard Fifield’s gift for crawling inside his characters’ adolescent skins is unsurpassed. A book that will resonate with both adults and those still in the throes of youthful discovery.” —Susan Crandall, author of Whistling Past the Graveyard

About the Author

Richard Fifield earned his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College in upstate New York. For the past twenty years he has worked as a social worker for adults with intellectual disabilities, while volunteering as a creative writing teacher in Missoula, Montana.

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The court-appointed advocate dropped me off at two o’clock in the morning. She didn’t even bring me all the way to my house, just left me on the side of the highway. I guess she wasn’t worried about my safety, lugging a suitcase without wheels all the way around the loop in the middle of the night. I was the only girl from Dogwood that didn’t want to be paroled, but the other girls didn’t have to return to Gabardine. I dragged the suitcase across the frozen ruts in the road, the ice sparkling under a thin winter moon, the only light in the entire trailer court. The front door was unlocked, but nobody locked their doors in my hometown.

It was only appropriate that my first day back at high school fell on the first day after spring break. I guess my classmates looked well rested. I had slept for less than four hours, and I’m sure it showed.

David could smell my vulnerability. Before the bell even rang in homeroom, he had managed to set a trap for me, just to watch it spring shut. Eighty-three days, but it was like I never left. I thought he would acknowledge my return, but he looked away and moved his desk closer to the radiator, cold as always. He barely fit in his desk. David was nearly six foot three, the kind of guy who was born with muscles, even though I know the only exercise he got was from arts and crafts. Blond, gorgeous, and, this morning, full of evil.

David was my best friend.

That morning, he ignored me, so I knew a plot was in motion. I expected something spectacular, but he just sent over a cheerleader to say something mean. He’d appointed himself in charge of the cheerleaders ages ago, and they all did his bidding. Kaitlynn, Caitlyn, Victoria, and Becky may have been varsity, but they were totally JV when it came to everything else. David fed them the insults, just like he monitored the rest of their diets. Their eyes betrayed them, every single time.

Kaitlynn approached me, as soon as she made sure everybody was seated.

“If we had a yearbook, you would be voted most likely to do a school shooting,” said Kaitlynn. She looked off to the side, calculating, double-checking her memory, making sure she had put emphasis on the right words. David even coached their line readings.

“I’m pretty sure that’s not a yearbook category,” I responded.

“Whatever,” she said. “I can just see you shooting up trigonometry.”

“It would probably be gym class,” I said. “But I’m the only one in our class who doesn’t own a gun.” Hunting was big in Gabardine. Principal Beaudin actually let kids miss school for hunting season.

“Freak,” she said, and walked away. It was a lame retort, but that’s how I knew it was her own.

I endured these things, because they didn’t mean them, and because this was some sort of gay muscle that David was training.

You would think he would be a target, but he was always the first to draw his weapon. I guess you could call him the most popular person in our school, but we all grew up together, and there was no hierarchy. David was not popular, he was a glue trap that we all got stuck in before we knew it.

I know it sounded weird, but David was my best friend. I think he threw chaos at me just to keep things interesting. I was the wild card. I was the one that didn’t fit his idea of what a high school should be. David read every single Sweet Valley High book, but he thought they were instruction manuals.

When we were freshmen, he tried to convince me to get a makeover. It was not the first time. “When we’re old, we will remember high school,” he had said. “Even if you end up in prison, you’re still going to reminisce.”

“Thanks, I guess.”

“There’s no reason we can’t have normal high school things. Drugs, eating disorders, homecoming queens.”

“We don’t have homecoming,” I said. I guess I was wrong about that. After almost three months away, here it was, my own personal homecoming.

During earth science, Kaitlynn appeared in the doorway. She was the office aide, which meant she roamed the halls and sometimes cut holiday decorations out of construction paper.

“Mr. Baker. The sheriff is in the office.”

“So?”

“He’s here for that girl.” She pointed at me. I’d known her for fifteen years. “And he’s armed.”

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07T5ZW4ZJ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Razorbill (March 10, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 10, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1603 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1984835912

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Richard Fifield is an author of two books, and the editor of an anthology. He currently resides in Missoula, Montana. In 2016, he released his debut novel, "The Flood Girls," from Simon & Schuster/Gallery Books. That book received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publisher's Weekly, and chosen by Target as their book of the month in November 2016. In 2019, he edited a collection of memoirs by Montana women, entitled "We Leave The Flowers Where They Are," with proceeds benefiting arts advocacy programs for women in underserved communities. In 2020, Fifield released "The Small Crimes Of Tiffany Templeton," a YA novel from Penguin/Razorbill. According to Kirkus, Fifield "succeeds in delivering a cast of quirky, unpredictable characters and and intriguing plot." He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with an MFA, and worked as a social worker for adults with intellectual disabilities. He currently volunteers as a creative writing teacher in the community, and spends his free time creating haute couture and doting on his beloved rescue dogs.

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Lacy Crook

Fifield Masters Small Town Montana Life Again!

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2020

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After reading and falling in love with all the small town Montana characters in "The Flood Girls", I didn't expect to find even more richly developed characters to love in this book.

Tough Tiff is like a jawbreaker, hard on the outside, but soft and a little broken on the inside. Her mother is distant and cold, passive aggressive to Tiff, but has a soft spot for Tiff's best friend David- an interesting character you can't forget. Tiff's father, who she was closest to, has just died, while her brother is mean and entangled in a weird religious cult. Your heart breaks for her as it seems she can't get a break!

This book is a great read for adults and teens alike. My teenage daughters loved it.

If you haven't read anything by Richard Fifield yet, start here and then don't forget about "The Flood Girls". Fifield is one of the wittiest writers and the master of quirky Montana characters. The way he writes about small town life is very true to form; people who have lived in small towns or people who haven't will both feel a sense of kinship with the town and the characters in this book.

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Rare and Raw and Remarkable

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2020

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This is not your typical young adult novel in a pretty little suburb with pretty little characters. No. This book invites you, no, YANKS you, into a small town in Montana where everyone knows everyone, but no one knows as much as Tiffany. You ride shotgun with Tough Tiff as her story, and that of her town, is revealed after her release from a girls' detention center. Some pages leaving you cheering, and some leave you tearing up as you get to know the cast of decidedly quirky characters that either haunt Tiffany or help her heal, or both. Where else will you find a pack rat on stage in a play about a forest fire ravaged brothel in rural Montana? No where. You will love this book.

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Raymona Tweed

Bad boy (or should I say girl) feel to it.

Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2021

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Left me with the feeling I had after reading "The Outsiders" wanting it to go on, because I was now invested in these characters.
Small town Montana may sound unreal to others but made me somewhat homesick.
I recommend it, kept my interest and I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop all the way through.
Thank you!

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Relatable main character

Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2020

What do you do when you're haunted by ghosts and not all of them are dead ones. This is what it seems life is throwing at Tiffany. Still grieving her father's death, she was as though dead to her mother in terms of emotional support. Her situation, coupled with a long duration of being teased by others at school, caused her to flip out and then end up in a detention center. Once freed, she vows to hunker down, rein in her feelings and blow town when she's able. However, there are plenty of hurdles between her and that goal. Read the book to see how she survives (or maybe not).

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Eugenia Luck

Wicked humor and a big heart

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2020

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Tiffany Templeton is a fantastic heroine--smart and sharp-witted, and doing her best to deal with a the weight of her past and also her grief for her father. I loved the unpredictable cast of round, intriguing characters, and the rapid-fire humor of the dialogue. A book about growing up tough and learning everything the hard way--you'll want to root for this girl.

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A witty story of grief, growth, and redemption.

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2020

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Richard Fifield is brilliant when it comes to writing about rural small town America. Tiffany Templeton is a believable character, trying to navigate her teen years, grief, and the pitfalls of small town life. The characters are all unique and could each have his or her own story. A witty story of grief, growth, and redemption.

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Small town teenage angst = big entertainment!

Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2020

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I love this story! I got sucked right in as I could see my own troubled teenage self in Tiffany, hoping for some caring adult to come along and give her the support and guidance she so desperately needed. You will not be disappointed with this!

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Hard to Put Down

Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2020

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The Small Crimes of Tiffany Templeton is laugh out loud funny. Fifield's new book is full of wit, creativity, and flare. Above all else the book sends a positive message that our pasts don't define us. Such a good book!

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