Girl Unmoored
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781280120688 (1280120681)
Publish date: January 1st 2012
Publisher: Fiction Studio
Pages no: 328
Edition language: English
In general, I am not a fan of "coming of age" stories. There's usually a life lesson to be learned, and it's usually beaten over the readers' heads.Jennifer Gooch Hummer's Girl Unmoored is not that kind of coming-of-age book. Taking place in the late '80s, the book is the story of Apron, a teen who'...
Free on Amazon 07/22/2012.
This book is not a book that I would have picked up on my own I don't think. The overview sounds good and it has a pretty cover, but it's nothing that really would grab my attention. That being said, I LOVED this book. It was beautiful and heartbreaking. It has some very serious issues in it, and a ...
E-galley received from Netgalley for review.It's 1985, and Apron Branhall is thriteen years old. Her mother recently passed away; her stepmother, a Brazilian immigrant who hates her, is pregnant; and her former best friend now hangs out with another girl. At her father's wedding, Apron meets Mike an...
Apron Bramhall is thirteen, and trying to make sense of her world. Her mother’s dead. Her father’s sleeping with the former in-home nurse, now live-in pain-in-Apron’s-life. Her best friend’s ditched her. And nobody has the time of day for her worries…Then she meets Chad and Mike. And learns that lif...