Helpful Score: 4
Anything that Laurie Halse Anderson touches turns to gold, and this book is no execption. It's absolutely amazing.
Helpful Score: 3
Another amazing read from Laurie Halse Anderson. This is not a sunny book filled with happy days and sweet endings. A brilliant Senior doesn't get into MIT and her world crashes around her. Only that's just the beginning. The next thing she knows her worst enemy is living in her room, secrets tumble out, and Anderson throws a gut-wrenching twist into the mix that makes the worst of everyone's problems seem like nothing.
This is a book for mature young readers, and more adults should read her work.
This is a book for mature young readers, and more adults should read her work.
Helpful Score: 3
This is a very intelligently written book about a straight-a student, whose life is spinning out of control by a series of events that rock her world. Kate Malone thinks she can handle anything, but her life to spin out of control. This is a complex story that I enjoyed immensely. Parts of it were very sad. It puts you right in to Kate's shoes. A super read!
Helpful Score: 2
From Amazon.com: Chemistry honors student and cross-country runner Kate Malone is driven. Daughter of a father who is a reverend first and a parent second ("Rev. Dad [Version 4.7] is a faulty operating system, incompatible with my software.") and a dead mother she tries not to remember, Kate has one goal: To escape them both by gaining entrance to her own holy temple, MIT. Eschewing sleep, she runs endlessly every night waiting for the sacred college acceptance letter. Then two disasters occur: Sullen classmate Teri and her younger brother, Mikey, take over Kate's room when their own house burns down, and a too-thin letter comes from MIT, signifying denial. And so the experiment begins. Can crude Teri and sweet Mikey, combined with the rejection letter, form the catalyst that will shake Kate out of her selfish tunnel vision and force her to deal with the suppressed pain of her mom's death? "If I could run all the time, life would be fine. As long as I keep moving, I'm in control." But for Kate, it's time to stop running and face the feelings she's spent her whole life racing away from.
Helpful Score: 1
this was a mind blowing book with twists in every chapter. it was a pheonomanal book that had me never wanting to put the book down. it is a great book to learn about what teeagers are thinking and what they sometimes go through
