Name: What Happened to Lani Garver
Rating: 4 (7 reviews)
ISBN: 9780152050887

Carol Plum-Ucci

What Happened to Lani Garver

Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother's alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps her get contro

Colton Ray

When I read this book for the first time about 12 years ago, I had little exposure to homosexuality and no exposure to the idea of transsexuality or transgenderism. I grew up quite sheltered in a part of the country where I rarely encountered people radically different from myself. I enjoyed it, but not as much as Plum-Ucci's first book, which I count as one of my favorite YA novels of all time. Rereading WHTLG again, I feel much the same way I did then. There are long stretches of boring terrain and I found Lani a bit annoying this time around. But I'm keeping it at three stars because I think it was way ahead of its time, being published in 2002, when this kind of stuff was even more taboo than it is now.

What Happened to Lani Garver

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