![]() ![]() ![]() To be honest, I can't quite decide what I think of this coming of age story, or whether I liked it or not. As she begins to distance herself from Collin and Abby, she begins to renew her friendship with Cara, a childhood friend she and Abby had seemingly just drifted away from.Īs Ellis' relationships with Abby, Collin, and Cara change and she struggles to accept her father's death, she turns to Cara for comfort more and more, and discovers the real reason their friendship was interrupted. Ellis is growing more and more disgusted by Abby's selfish, insensitive, and sometimes downright mean, behavior and with Collin for putting up with her abuse and letting her use him. Instead, Ellis has spent the past two years dealing with her father being in a permanent vegetative state following a fall at a construction site, and now she is reeling at her mother's suggestion that it is time to remove life support and let him go.Įllis finds herself unable to talk about what is going on with her two best friends, the pretty, popular, and self-absorbed Abby, and the sometimes too loyal Collin, who is besotted with Abby and lets her take advantage of him. ![]() Ages 13 & up.Įllis is approaching the end of her sophomore year, but unlike her classmates, her thoughts do not revolve around making fun summer plans. ![]() 37 Things I Love (In No Particular Order) by Kekla Magoon. ![]()
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