📖Recommend for Grades 9 and up📖
by Jennifer Brown
All of Kendra’s life seems to
revolve around and be influenced by, her older brother Grayson due to his OCD
and other “issues”. Living in Grayson’s shadow has caused Kendra to strive to
be perfect in her parent’s eyes. Grayson’s return from a trip to a facility to
help “fix” him coincides with Kendra finding herself in the middle of a
spontaneous road trip to run away from their problems and to visit Zoey who had
to move away because of Grayson. Their journey doesn’t go smoothly and involves
a few gross motels, picking up a stranger with a baby on the side of the road,
and Zoey coming to terms with what she is really running away from.
A humorous and heartwarming road
trip story about self-realization and sibling bonding. Readers will struggle
with sympathizing with Kendra having to deal with Grayson’s mental illness, but
also with Grayson having to be the one living with them. We don’t get to see
much of Grayson beyond his OCD which may cause frustration, but as this story
is ultimately Kendra’s many should be able to look past.
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