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McCahan, Erin
3 Reviews
(3)
YA
Ambitious Briggs Henry is spending the summer before college on Lake Michigan, working for an eccentric, elderly Serbian woman while living in her huge lakeside home. In between odd jobs and accompanying Mrs. B. to funerals, Briggs makes beach friends--including a sharp-witted girl with a chronic illness--and deals with his overbearing father. A warm and diverting coming-of-age story.
Reviewer: Jessica Tackett MacDonald
(3)
YA
Josie doesn't like change. So when her sister Kate announces she's going to marry Geoff, Josie immediately tries everything to alienate him. But she also becomes curious about the nature of love and, with the help of her friends and family, tries to understand it. The highlight of this effectively drawn, often funny novel is its smart, precocious, and irrepressibly inquisitive protagonist.
Reviewer: Ariel Baker-Gibbs
(3)
YA
Droll eighteen-year-old Bronwen fantasizes about being part of a different, less emotionally distant family. So when her perfect boyfriend Jared proposes, Bronwen accepts, happy she'll finally become "someone else." McCahan handles the subject of teenage marriage with subtlety and without lecturing. Romantically inclined readers will understand Bronwen's confusion and sympathize with the difficult choices she has to make.
Reviewer: Rachel L. Smith
3 reviews
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