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Such a beautifully written story of two kids growing into young adults and discovering the world and who they are. I want to write more, but I am still basking in the glow of the ending of this book. I just can't wipe the grin off of my face. Written from the point of view of Ari - a loner who, one summer when he's 15, meets and befriends Dante - this is the perfect example of a coming of age novel. Both characters are wonderful, and watching them both grow and finally come together is simply su
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I open this review with a confession: I underlined so many quotes in this book. I'm generally not a person who underlines or annotates novels for the simple reason that I'm an English Literature student so any time I do annotate, I'm probably doing required reading. Call me crazy but I like to be able to read leisurely too. But within the space of maybe 20 pages this book just begged me to start underlining it. Why? Because this coming-of-age, relatively simple story, told via the first-person n
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This book was definitely a beautiful coming of age story. The parents in this book where wonderful whereas a lot of parents in contemporary young adult literature I simply can't stand. The parents in this story showed their child unconditional love. Even if I couldn't really tell wether or not they accepted their child's choices they accepted them for who they where. Makes me want to hug any children I ever have.
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