Now this is a real YA realistic fiction. It's not "the evil teacher" or "the school bully" who's preventing Marissa from realizing her dreams--it's a loving family and her own sense of responsibility. Her family is pressuring her to skimp on school (and especially calculus for her AP college credit) so she can put in extra hours at Kroger, cook dinner, or babysit for her sister. What's the point of college anyway? And even if she gets into the engineering program at UT, how can her mother let her go so far away?
There's boys in there too--she's a teenager, after all. And about as stupid as a highly intelligent high school senior can be...maybe. We hope not. We'll see.
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