By: Sarah Dessen
With her sixth novel, award-winning author Sarah Dessen offers up another helping of finely crafted storytelling about real teens dealing with real life. After Macy Queen's father's death, she tells people she's "fine" when nothing could be further from the truth. Macy feels lost when her boyfriend heads to "Brain Camp" for the summer, and puts their relationship on hold. She finds herself a job with the quirky Wish Catering crew, and discovers what its like to truly live life. Grief, fear, and love set the novel's pace, and Macy's transformation from striving for perfection to accepting fallible, emotional humanity is, for the right readers, as gripping as any action adventure.
Ages 12 and up
Rating: 7.5/10
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