Pip has known and liked Sal since childhood he’d supported her when she was being bullied in middle school. There’s not much plot here, but readers will relish the opportunity to climb inside Autumn’s head.Įveryone believes that Salil Singh killed his girlfriend, Andrea Bell, five years ago-except Pippa Fitz-Amobi. Even secondary characters are well-rounded, with their own histories and motivations.
Autumn’s coming-of-age is sensitively chronicled, with a wide range of experiences and events shaping her character. But on August 8, everything changes, and Autumn has to rely on all her strength to move on. In the summer after graduation, Autumn and Finny reconnect and are finally ready to be more than friends. Growing up, Autumn and Finny were like peas in a pod despite their differences: Autumn is “quirky and odd,” while Finny is “sweet and shy and everyone like him.” But in eighth grade, Autumn and Finny stop being friends due to an unexpected kiss. They drift apart and find new friends, but their friendship keeps asserting itself at parties, shared holiday gatherings and random encounters. The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. A first novel that should find a wide audience among YAs who enjoy a good story with real depth. Billy/Will is a fully realized character, caught up in a confusing conflict of loyalties and at the mercy of adults and their seemingly unreasonable demands.
In spite of a rather implausible beginning, this fine coming-of-age story recalls Hinton's Tex or Crutcher's early novels. School is no better until he meets Diana, who understands his need to talk to a friend, and he begins to come to terms with his life. Will, as his stepfather insists he be called, can't adjust and can't seem to please Dave. Convinced by his dad that his family didn't want him or they would have tracked him down, Billy is furious when his stepfather, Dave, takes him back to Iowa without letting him say goodbye to his dad, his friends, or his girlfriend. Sixteen-year-old Billy's easygoing life in a small New Mexico town is disrupted when he's arrested for brawling and a routine fingerprint check reveals that he's a missing child, kidnapped at age ten by his father.
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