Pat M. J. reviewed on 4/19/2015 + 66 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

A fine book that manages to take an intelligent look at the "current headlines" story about yet another 13 yr. old student being maliciously bullied at school. She weaves deftly through the complex plot, with compassion and pulls it off. One is carried through the heartbreaking dysfunctional families involved, seen through the eyes of a librarian who suffers guilt for her own runaway daughter's alienation. The Librarian is not the sharpest knife in the drawer but maintains her drive to the end, believing that she is only one who can save this teenaged child from destruction. A fascinating subplot is the old manuscript, detailing the long lost autobiography of an Irish immigrant girl, who happens to be the great grandmother of the teenager.

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