Rating: Marginal
HarperTeen, 2008, $17.99
ISBN: 9780061143731
ISBN: 9780061143731
Age/Grade Level: Teen
Emily is on the school newspaper staff and wants to be the editor during her senior year. A boy on the newspaper staff has a crush on Emily. She has a crush on the next-door neighbor boy.
I thought this book could have been a good story if the characters had been developed a bit more. Emily befriends the next door neighbor's grandmother, but their friendship didn't really grab me. Nor did the relationship Emily has with her crush, Brian. The author really needed to write another hundred pages or so developing relationships and characters.
Reviewer: Kim Bell, Orange County Public Library/Cypress Branch
