Tracey's Tough Choice

Cover Kids #2

by Suzanne Weyn

Twelve-year-old Tracey's life with her divorced mother seems perfectly balanced with her growing career as a model, until the father she has never known seeks her out and she is faced with a difficult decision.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Suzanne Weyn grew up in Williston Park, Long Island, New York. She has three sisters and a brother. As a girl, she was very interested in theatre and in reading. Louisa May Alcott was her favorite author, but she also read every Sherlock Holmes story. Suzanne lived pretty close to the ocean and going to Jones Beach was one of her favorite activities. Even today, if she goes too long without seeing the ocean, she starts feeling restless.

Suzanne now lives in upper New York State with her husband, two teen daughters and Abby the cat. Her house is at the edge of the woods and is nearly 200 years old. She graduated from State University of New York at Binghamton and received her master's degree from Pace University. She teaches part-time at City College in New York.

Suzanne's other books for Simon Pulse include South Beach Sizzle, a romantic comedy written with Diana Gonzalez. Her novels for the Simon Pulse line "Once Upon a Time" are The Night Dance: A Retelling of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, Water Song: A Retelling of the Frog Prince, and The Crimson Thread: A Retelling of Rumplestiltskin. She very much enjoys rethinking these classic tales from an original point of view, always looking for the real psychological underpinning of the story. Suzanne is currently doing revisions on her fourth book in the line, which will be coming in 2009.

Suzanne's other recent novels are include The Bar Code Tattoo (2004) and its sequel, The Bar Code Rebellion (2006). The Bar Code Tattoo was selected by the American Library Assoc. (ALA) as a 2005 Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers and was a 2007 Nevada Library nominee for Best Young Adult Fiction. It is currently translated into German and was nominated for the 2007 Jugenliteraturpreis for Young People's Literature.

Reviews

[Shania Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is about a 13 year old girl name Tracey who lives with her mother, and her mother and father are divorce and are suffering badly because they don't have that much money. After going to the mall with her best friend Nikki and was offered a modeling job to help her mother but, everything changes when her mother starts dating a guy name Mel and then her long lost father comes back in her life after God knows how much years and offers her a plane ticket to Arizona to live with him and his wife as a normal family would she take it or stay with her mother n her boyfriend Mel and keep her modeling job? Will her mom stop her in time or would she take the flight?

[Ariel · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was cute (again!). XD