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Marisol's Story
By Wittlinger, Ellen
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-1-41691-623-9
- Publisher
- Simon
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2008
Gr 9-Up Marisol Guzman, 18, puts off enrolling at Stamford for a year so she can write a novel. She gets a job at a local coffee shop and signs up for a writing course through the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. Olivia, the instructor, is strikingly beautiful, a number of years older, and appears to have the knowledge and skills to teach the class. Looks can be deceiving, however, and Marisol learns this truth the hard way when she becomes involved in her first real sexual relationship. Her former buddy, Gio, wh...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2008
Taking a year off between high school and college, Marisol signs up for a novel-writing class, only to find that her estranged friend Gio (whose hopeless love for Marisol, a lesbian, was the subject of Wittlinger's Hard Love, rev. 7/99) has also joined the class. Marisol works on her novel (often reflective of her own life); mends fences with Gio; befriends newly out high-school senior Lee, whose parents have ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2008
Marisol (<i>Hard Love</i>) takes a novel-writing class. She mends fences with estranged friend Gio, befriends newly out Lee, and ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
