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Nikki, Sam, and Alicia (friends who've grown up together in the Mormon faith) will each choose someone with untapped potential and remake that someone--and then they'll take their creations to the prom. The story quickly leaves the territory of teen-Pygmalion romance, however, as their travels into other lives result in the alteration of their own instead. The first-person narratives are skillfully interwoven in this fresh, energetic novel.
Reviewer: Lauren Adams
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2003
201 pp.
| Morrow
| May, 1999
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TradeISBN 0-688-16243-6$$16.00
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In this intriguing novel, the Clan--a nonconformist group of young, male "social iconoclasts"--stand apart "like an odd, fervent religion," and people in seventeen-year-old Casey's town avoid contact with its silent, stony-faced members. When Casey begins interacting with a Clan member, it throws off the uneasy social balance that has existed in the community, creating a dangerous conflict that will keep readers engaged.
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 1999
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