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I enjoyed this book so much I read it twice in a row. This is the story of Laurel who struggles with meth addiction. Oh, she wants to quit so her younger brother Jesse Jr. will look up to her, she has a loving father, a best friend, cheerleading. . . but the meth calls to her too . . . a couple snorts or smokes and all her pain and memories of the tragic losses of her mother and grandmother will be gone. High on life or high on meth ...more
I enjoyed this book so much I read it twice in a row. This is the story of Laurel who struggles with meth addiction. Oh, she wants to quit so her younger brother Jesse Jr. will look up to her, she has a loving father, a best friend, cheerleading. . . but the meth calls to her too . . . a couple snorts or smokes and all her pain and memories of the tragic losses of her mother and grandmother will be gone. High on life or high on meth ...more
So another book about meth.
NOT.
Beneath a Meth Moon isn't just another book about meth addiction. Jacqueline Woodson can't write "just another book" because Jacqueline Woodson is amazing.
This is a heart-breaking story. Not just the story of fifteen-year-old Laurel and her fight with the monster that is meth, but it is also about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. This is the second post-Katrina book I've read and equally as emotionally tough. Laurel and her family live in Pass Christian, but she ...more
NOT.
Beneath a Meth Moon isn't just another book about meth addiction. Jacqueline Woodson can't write "just another book" because Jacqueline Woodson is amazing.
This is a heart-breaking story. Not just the story of fifteen-year-old Laurel and her fight with the monster that is meth, but it is also about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. This is the second post-Katrina book I've read and equally as emotionally tough. Laurel and her family live in Pass Christian, but she ...more
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Intense...heart-breaking...uplifting. Woodson is an amazing author!
ok, but nothing more
While I don't really have any complaints about this post-Katrina drug abuse story, and there is some beautiful trademark Woodson language, I never really connected with Laurel and for me it failed to pack an emotional punch.
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