June 18th, 2012
After being dumped by her boyfriend, an emotionally shaken 17-year-old high school senior makes friends with an angry young man and discovers that the secure family she always considered rock-solid is riddled with lies and secrets. This is a story about familial ties-ties of blood, ties of love, ties that bind. It’s also about family […]
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June 13th, 2012
I love books that remind me exactly what it felt like to be a teenager. And books where guys and girls have relationships that aren’t about the luuuurve. And books that have so much real-life drama that they don’t need magic and vampires and the end of the world (although I love those too). […]
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April 16th, 2012
I enjoyed Emily For Real. The prose flows nicely, the characters are authentic, and Emily’s voice is immediate and compelling. Emily is a real teen, as are her friends. It’s never wise to keep secrets from anyone, especially those you love, but there is one thing in Emily’s life that is not kept secret — […]
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April 3rd, 2012
As the narrator who shares her responses to a stream of stupefying revelations, Emily becomes a real girl, not a cardboard cut-out of a teen… – HelenK, CanLit for LittleCanadians Click here to read the full review
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