Three teens, three stories—all interconnected through their parents’ family relationships. As the adults pull away, caught up in their own dilemmas, the lives of the teens begin to tilt….
Mikayla, almost eighteen, is over-the-top in love with Dylan, who loves her back jealously. But what happens to that love when Mikayla gets pregnant the summer before their senior year—and decides to keep the baby?
Shane turns sixteen that same summer and falls hard in love with his first boyfriend, Alex, who happens to be HIV positive. Shane has lived for four years with his little sister’s impending death. Can he accept Alex’s love, knowing that his life, too, will be shortened?
Harley is fourteen—a good girl searching for new experiences, especially love from an older boy. She never expects to hurdle toward self-destructive extremes in order to define who she is and who she wants to be.
Love, in all its forms, has crucial consequences in this standalone novel.
When I tell you this book was amazing.....
A lot of times when people try to make books about life as a modern day teenager, they fail. Epically.But gosh darn it Ellen Hopkins you done did it.
I'm not gonna spoil the book for you but it was actually RELATABLE. She didn't try to use weird slang that no teenager in America uses like "one crispy drumstick closer to making our dreams 'cuzome true in the jiggy jungle" *cough cough cheetah girls cough* but actually spoke normally.
The characters experienced things that a lot of
Thumbs up to you Ellen Hopkins.
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