by Jessica Warman
This book was pretty good... only, I know it's a semiautobiography, but seriously:I don't care how bad*** the main character is, you can't drink alcohol, party every night, smoke cigarettes, smoke marijuana, lie about your service hours, and still get into Harvard. Seriously.
Raw, realistic and subject matters out of the norm, from the jock christian boy refusing to have sex to the psychotically insane brother who kills cats without really thinking of the consequences. Katie, the main character, is the flower that rose from the pot of dirt. Her family, once poor, is now ...
It consumed me (my day, my thoughts and the life around me); did I really have anything else to do today besides read this book? But wait, it’s almost over, my fingers are thumbing through the final pages, no…. this cannot be happening! I’m not ready for this to end, another ending to one of Jessica...
I bought this because the Kindle store had it on sale and it had decent reviews. Though it isn't the sort of book you write home about, I don't regret spending my $0.99 on it, rather than on, I don't know, a candy bar or chips from the vending machine I don't need. It's easier just to read about des...
At first this books feels like one of those, I'm a teenager waa waa waa, my parents don't understand me, I'm spoiled. But then Katie is shipped off to boarding school and things start to change and I start to soften a little bit towards her character. I can't imagine having a brother who is unable t...
Summary: After her brother's mental illness enters what can only be called a Death Spiral of Psychosis, Katie's workaholic father and alcoholic mother pack her off to boarding school four hours away. At first she overcomes her newbie jitters and fits in, impressing her swim coach, finding popular fr...
Breathless starts with 15 year-old Katie when her father(who they call Ghost) decides to send her off to boarding school after her schizophrenic brother tries to commit suicide.And when she gets there rather than saying why she was sent there(because who starts sophmore year?)she decides to just tel...
Katie Kitrell's life is going down the tubes. Her brother has finally done something so bad that not even Katie can escape from it. The only thing her parents can think to do is to ship her off to some unheard of boarding school.Once there, things don't seem to bad. Katie fits right in with the p...