📖Recommend for Grades 9 and up📖
by Robyn Schneider
A massive earthquake in California results in the death of Sasha's mother. With her mother gone and father not in the picture, Sasha moves to Orange County to live with her conservative grandparents. Now responsible for Sasha's upbringing, her grandparents want what they view as best for her. This means taking advanced classes, joining mock trial, avoiding art, and getting involved with their friend's grandson Cole. Sasha wants to take classes she can handle, take art, avoid mock trial, and spend time with Lily. The problem, she also wants to please her grandparents. Sasha has to struggle with losing her mother, being someplace new, her grandparents' expectations, and trying to figure out who she is.
If you are sensitive to books dealing with parental death, skipping this book is recommended. One of Sasha's conflicts is her sexual identity, which is a significant issue with her conservative parents, which could be a sensitive topic for some readers. For those who can handle a book with those topics, this is an intriguing book about self-discovery worth reading. The pacing of the book is slow but still engaging. Sasha is white, but her friends feature some racially diverse characters, including Lily, who is Chinese-American. Mini spoiler, there is some minor sexual content between Cole and Lily, but it stops before anything gets too bad.
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