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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 ...
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...
What a surprising book this turned out to be. I was expecting a quirky story about a girl named Apron but I wasn't expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. This story follows Apron as she goes through her life. Her Mom is dead, her Dad married her Mom's nurse who is a total b word and her best friend...