Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone
An arresting un-coming-of-age story, from a breathtaking talentBecca has always longed to break free from her small, backwater hometown. But the discovery of an unidentified dead girl on the side of a dirt road sends the town--and Becca--into a tailspin. Unable to make sense of the violence of...
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An arresting un-coming-of-age story, from a breathtaking talentBecca has always longed to break free from her small, backwater hometown. But the discovery of an unidentified dead girl on the side of a dirt road sends the town--and Becca--into a tailspin. Unable to make sense of the violence of the outside world creeping into her backyard, Becca finds herself retreating inward, paralyzed from moving forward for the first time in her life.Short chapters detailing the last days of Amelia Anne Richardson's life are intercut with Becca's own summer as the parallel stories of two young women struggling with self-identity and relationships on the edge twist the reader closer and closer to the truth about Amelia's death.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780525423898 (0525423893)
Publish date: July 5th 2012
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
This book was highly recommended to me by the entire blogging sphere. Jessie atAgeless Pages Review and Pixie at The Bookaholic, and I tackled this as a group read at the start of the month. At the end, we shared our thoughts and joined together to create the Awesome Team and review it. I believe w...
A dead girl found on the side of the road in a small town where there just aren't really murders to be solved. Another girl, ready to get out of dodge, get to college and never look back. A mystery, just the way I like them: short on adrenaline (a couple of spikes at the most climactic of moments,...
This book has been on my TBR for so long, and I finally borrowed a copy from the library. Here is the Goodreads summary:Becca has always longed to break free from her small, backwater hometown. But the discovery of an unidentified dead girl on the side of a dirt road sends the town – and Becca – int...
Oh, Amelia Anne. I honestly have no idea where to start with this book. I was very on the fence about it until about half way through. It was sort of a slow starter and then I kept feeling hot and cold… and don’t make me mention how put off I was by a certain Chinese food container. (Though that par...
Those of us who grew up in a small town can relate to the feeling of watching your peers leave full of hope and then returning, finding themselves trapped with no way out. On the night of her high school graduation, Becca Williams is dumped by her boyfriend James. She doesn’t know while she was left...
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