by Kelly Vincent
Enjoyed this absolutely. Be warned--it gets a little scary at points. But that was necessary for the story she was telling--a girl is growing up and beginning to reach the rebellion age. Her mother has kept in near-isolation for all of her growing up years--she's schooled at home, discouraged from going outside, has no relatives. The story is that they all died in a car crash from which only she and her mother survived.
She decides to go to public high school in order to run on the cross country team and try for an athletic scholarship to college. I'm not sure if that's possible but it made the plot work. And then things happen.
I wanted to read more about her running but that's not where the story went. Did the author try to put that in but have it trimmed out by an editor? If it had been there, with feelings, that would have turned this from a 4-star book into a 4.5. But never mind. I enjoyed it a lot and would have enjoyed it even more when I was younger.
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