Language: R (100+ swears, 9 ‘f’); Mature Content: G; Violence: G
BUYING ADVISORY: HS - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
18yo Quinn’s journal is missing! All of her lists – personal goals, judgmental lists, embarrassing lists – all of it. She knows Carter had it, but he says it disappeared on the bus. Now someone is blackmailing Quinn – if she’ doesn’t fix the items, the highly personal items, on her ‘to do” list (tell Mom and Dad that she didn’t get into Columbia like she told them, for example), then every page of the journal goes public. Quinn has may hard truths to acknowledge about herself. She needs to also stand up against the racist bullies in her own school, and acknowledge even to herself why she really dumped her former best friend.
What a vivid cautionary tale about the lies we try to tell ourselves and delicate nature of the lies we tell in public. Goffney also weaves in the racism Quinn experiences in her 99% white private school and the racism she receives from Carter for not being Black enough. Quinn and Carter’s families are all Clack, while the other characters around them are white.
Cindy, Library Teacher, MLS
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