Content: G
BUYING ADVISORY: EL,
MS - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
12yo Becca is
virtually crippled by anxiety, but her mom is flying with her to Austria, where
Becca can spend the summer with her father.
Accompanied by all of her Doomsday journals, where she writes all of her
fears and possible solutions, Becca hopes she and her dad will have fun
together. But now she has his
girlfriend, the girlfriend’s 13yo son, and an au pair who is a Bosnian refugee.
Becca, Felix, and Sara each make a list of things they want to conquer that
summer (eat a soft boiled egg?)– but planning for every eventuality doesn’t
mean that you can brainstorm all of the ways your life may take shape.
Set in the summer
of 1993, this is kind of historical fiction, especially when Sara’s passport
gets stolen and she is taken into custody.
But the framework for Becca’s life is her anxiety and I am just tired of
12yo girl characters having anxiety as their main character trait. I can only
take so much of this tired trope. I have plenty of books about girls – plenty.
Book was loaned
from libro.fm for an honest review; narrated by Chelsea Kwoka
Cindy, Library
Teacher, MLS
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