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What We Keep Is Not Always What Will Stay (2011)

by Amanda Cockrell(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

073872615X (ISBN13: 9780738726151)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

publisher

Flux

review 1: I picked this book up basically because the cover is cool - I love sugar skulls. I read the back, did not seem interested and was about to take it back to the library. I started reading and got sucked in. Even with the otherworldly saint story going on you have a real book, with real characters and some real feelings. Really! You want to help the characters, hold their hands and step away from them.
review 2: I loved this book. It is the story of Angie, a 15-year old girl who makes friends with Jesse, a boy who signed up for the army at 17, lost a leg in Afghanistan, and is now back in high school trying to finish up and graduate. At first, Angie and best friend Lily simply are nice girls who see someone who needs friends, but slowly Jesse begins to mean mor... moree to Angie. But Jesse is damaged, and Angie realizes that she simply cannot fix him. Angie is just impulsive and irrational enough to feel like a real teen-ager, but refreshingly level-headed. She is the 15-year old you hope your daughter will be, or you were. A tragic story, but NOT in a way that YA usually tells them. This book is one of those where you really kind of half believe these people are out there really living these lives. Terrific. 8th - up. less

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