Mateo’s life is turned upside down the day U.S. YA)Ī Mexican American boy takes on heavy responsibilities when his family is torn apart. then he was all.” Expect teen readers to be quoting aloud to each other, and giggling. It’s also full of sly throwaway references: oaths taken on a copy of Lord of the Rings instead of a Bible, Ash’s dad singing Aerosmith, accounts that read, “he was all. Modern teen life just outside Philadelphia is vividly drawn in Ashley’s first-person tale, and it’s both screamingly funny and surprisingly tender. It delights her very pregnant mom it makes dealing with all those detentions and uncompleted assignments even more of a chore it focuses Nat’s slightly addled Russian grandmother on dressmaking and calls Ashley’s hilarious aunts to the fore. Rather against her will, Ashley gets sucked into the lists in Nat’s pink notebook. Nat figures they can still have a prom, if they beg for stuff and get teachers to help and bribe the custodial staff and so on. She’s not into the prom the way her best friend Natalia is, so when it nearly gets cancelled because a teacher has absconded with all the money, Ashley is not prepared for Nat’s approach. Ashley thinks of herself as a normal kid: best friend next door, hot, but unreliable dropout boyfriend, parents a bit spacey, and a household barely hanging in there.
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