Fitzgerald, Sarah Moore
The Apple Tart of Hope, 154 pgs.
Holiday House, 2014. $16.95 Content: Language: PG (6 swears); Mature
Content: PG; Violence: PG.
Meg and Oscar
have been best friends forever, but when Meg goes on vacation for six months to
Australia their relationship is strained.
One night Oscar goes missing and all the town can find of him is his
broken up bike and his shoes found at the bottom of the sea floor. When Meg starts to investigate what happened to
her usually happy perfect best friend, she holds onto hope that he is
okay.
This book is told in the alternate
voices of Meg and Oscar. The only mature
content is when someone accuses Oscar of being a “perv” and there is talk of
suicide. I was surprised by how much I
enjoyed this sweet book with good characters.
As the story unfolds, it is hard to put down. The cover does seem like a middle reader,
even though high school kids would enjoy the read.
MS - ESSENTIAL, HS – ADVISABLE. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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