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A Certain October (2012)

by Angela Johnson(Favorite Author)

3.45 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0689865058 (ISBN13: 9780689865053)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fiction

publisher

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

review 1: Confession: I didn't finish this. It's not a bad book--I just got bored. Angela Johnson is fabulous and amazing, but I just feel like I've read this book a million times before and there wasn't enough originality to make me want to read it again: Awesome girl with fabulous, hilarious pseudo-misfit friends and an autistic younger brother gets caught in the middle of a freak accident that completely rips her world apart and makes her feel like every bad thing is her fault. It's a coming-of-age rite of passage to become obsessed with a book like this (the pivotal one that I read in adolescence was Nobody's Fault by Patricia Hermes), but I think I've just read too many at this point.
review 2: Angela Johnson writes stories with teens who seem real. And, true to the... more title, it covers a month in Scotty's life: the family dynamics, the close friends and their lives, the upcoming Homecoming dance, the train accident that injures her and her autistic brother and kills a classmate. As she recovers from her grief, life goes on. This is such a step up from urban fiction, with complex characters and a real storyline, plus its brevity will be a draw to teens who think they don't want to read. Very good, but not a page-turner. less

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