2018. $18.
Language: PG (11 swears, 0 ‘f’); Mature Content: PG-13 (groping, boy body part mentioned); Violence: G.
BUYING ADVISORY: MS - ESSENTIAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH
Quinn, 9thgrade, and her family have moved across the country to find a new school to help her autistic younger brother. For Quinn this could be a new start, as at the beginning of 8thgrade she had a flare of alopecia areta and lost all of her hair; her best friends and all of the rest of kids at school were neither sympathetic nor kind to her ever so obvious problem. Now, Quinn starts the first day of school with a beautiful wig so that no one will see her bad head and some pretty, popular girls latch on to her almost immediately. But the person that really attracts Quinn’s attention is Nick, the local who is now a paraplegic after a ATV accident that summer. She empathizes with Nick’s grief, even if she is afraid to reveal to him her own problems.
If you haven’t read any of Friend’s books yet, you are in for treat! She deserves so much more popularity and attention than she receives – step up librarians! She is a master of the honest problem novel. You cannot go wrong with this.
Cindy, Library Teacher
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