She's just a young woman, in her junior year in high school. She's just growing into her skin, slowly becoming comfortable and learning who she is...
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Nov 06, 2009
Jennifer
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Reviewed by Melanie Foust for TeensReadToo.com
She was planning on biding her time until graduation. She endured her father's demeaning talk and physical cruelty, wishing for the day to come when she could leave and never look back. That day came much sooner than she planned when he took a small step toward sexual abuse. She knew that it would never stop, so she left.
But she was not alone. She would never be alone as long as she had London. London would always be her best More...
She was planning on biding her time until graduation. She endured her father's demeaning talk and physical cruelty, wishing for the day to come when she could leave and never look back. That day came much sooner than she planned when he took a small step toward sexual abuse. She knew that it would never stop, so she left.
But she was not alone. She would never be alone as long as she had London. London would always be her best More...
Apr 09, 2009
Maria
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I really enjoyed reading this book. It's all about a sixteen year old girl whose best friend is a boy, London, who is in the year above her at school. They have known each other for seven years and are very close. The story is told in the first person from the perspective of the young girl (we never do learn her name - but as she says at the end of the novel 'my name isn't important').
The girl has suffered at the hands of an alcoholic father for many years and one night when things go t More...
The girl has suffered at the hands of an alcoholic father for many years and one night when things go t More...
May 08, 2010
Jen
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This is a book about identity, a girl who seems to rebel against being defined by the things that happen to her rather than who she really is-which, she sets out to find out. I suppose this is what is meant by the term coming-of-age in the truest sense, by defining onesself for onesself. Although the character does not identify herself by name, she comes to identify herself as one who endures.
I found the writing here to be strong and the character very sympathetic, and never pathet More...
I found the writing here to be strong and the character very sympathetic, and never pathet More...
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Jun 11, 2010
Kate
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The novel follows an unnamed 16 year old girl through her tribulations with an alcoholic father. Upon reaching her last straw, she decides to run away from home with her best friend's (London) help. The plot follows these two on the road to find a new home and acceptance. Please note this is not a book for the timid. It is a bit graphic in its usage of alcoholism, drugs, and even sex.
Okay is one of the most poignant novels that I have ever read. It is heartbreaking, sweet, bitter. Ho More...
Okay is one of the most poignant novels that I have ever read. It is heartbreaking, sweet, bitter. Ho More...
Mar 27, 2010
LK
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Sixteen is a pivotal age, stranded between childhood and adulthood. At sixteen life ranges from ecstasy to despair and the cause of the emotion can be trivial or momentous. I remember wanting to be taken seriously, to be treated more as an adult than a child. To be free to make my own decisions for the course of my life. But of course, along with the freedom of decision, comes responsibility and consequences for those choices.
In Katherine Marple's novel, Okay, the sixteen-year-old unnamed
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