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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2008
Gr 7-Up Jenna, 17, has remade herself. She's lost weight, is invited to social events, likes her alternative high school, and even has a boyfriend. In vivid detail, she recalls the bittersweet events of her earlier life. One of the few non-Mormons in her Salt Lake City grade school, she was a social pariah with only one friend, a boy named Cameron, another outcast. Readers are given fleeting glimpses of happy memories as well as the horrif...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2008
As a child, Jennifer was an ostracized outcast; with her well-meaning single mother entirely occupied with nursing school, the only one who "knows everything about me...and loves me anyway" is her sweet, troubled best friend Cameron. Shortly after the two endure a terrifying encounter with Cameron's abusive father, Cameron disappears, and Jennifer, devastated by the loss of her only friend and then by what she believes is his death (he is rumored to have been killed in a fr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2008
Outcast Jennifer remakes herself into stylish "Jenna." When her childhood pal, Cameron, reappears, Jenna's past and present become in...Log In or Sign Up to Read More