Undercover
by:
Beth Kephart (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780061238932 (0061238937)
Publish date: September 18th 2007
Publisher: HarperTeen
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Family,
Contemporary,
Poetry,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Relationships,
Young Adult Contemporary
A poetically-written novel about a poetically-inclined girl, Elisa. The poetry, in both Elisa's narration and her poems-as-such, is gorgeous but steers shy of either language or themes beyond the reach of a teenager, even a precocious one. In a way, "beyond the reach" and "steering shy" are what the...
While most high schools seem to stratify into various subgroups - jocks, brains, leaders, followers, trendies, what have you - there's a larger breakdown that overlays them, and within the subgroups the same breakdown occurs: those that are in the thick of it, and those on the sidelines. The ones on...