Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.This is a book teenage girls will love. It is very sad and contains powerful scenes of first lust and first love (not the same thing!). The novel in verse concept is very good at making every word count. The abusive father graphically shows how some families have very difficult home situations that they do not let the "outside" world know about.
Rating: 8 out of 10...maybe even a 9
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