Kent, Rose Rocky Road, 295 p. Knopf (Random), 2010. $16.99. Content: G.
Tess and Jordan have been dragged from warm, sunny Texas to cold and snowy Schenectady, New York for a new life, so Mom says. Her bright idea? Spend the absolute last of their money purchasing and then fixing up an old ice cream shop. In Winter? In upstate New York? But crazy is just par for the course for Tess – who is always keeping an eye on her deaf, little brother, because Mom rides a roller coaster of Shooting Stars – as Tess calls her mother’s undiagnosed bipolar disease. A loving community will have to all hang together to save this little family from disaster.
I thoroughly loved Kent’s look at another young person who is being the adult in a family piloted by a mentally ill parent. There are many rich novels of this sort this year and this is one of my favorites.
EL, MS – ESSENTIAL. Cindy, Library Teacher
Tess and Jordan have been dragged from warm, sunny Texas to cold and snowy Schenectady, New York for a new life, so Mom says. Her bright idea? Spend the absolute last of their money purchasing and then fixing up an old ice cream shop. In Winter? In upstate New York? But crazy is just par for the course for Tess – who is always keeping an eye on her deaf, little brother, because Mom rides a roller coaster of Shooting Stars – as Tess calls her mother’s undiagnosed bipolar disease. A loving community will have to all hang together to save this little family from disaster.
I thoroughly loved Kent’s look at another young person who is being the adult in a family piloted by a mentally ill parent. There are many rich novels of this sort this year and this is one of my favorites.
EL, MS – ESSENTIAL. Cindy, Library Teacher
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