Name: Calli
ISBN: 9781571317025

Jessica Lee Anderson

When fifteen-year-old Calli's two moms take in Cherish, a troubled teenager, and Calli tries to stand up to her antisocial behavior, things quickly begin to spiral downward before Calli can begin to regain some semblance of control.

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Read this review on my blog! --&gt; <a href="http://gonewiththewords.com/2013/07/01/review-calli-by-jessica-lee-anderson/" rel="nofollow noopener">Calli by Jessica Lee Anderson</a> What I really appreciated about Calli was the realistic view into a loving, unconventional family. Calli has two moms who love her and who are also very passionate about foster care and adoption. When we meet Calli, we also meet her foster sister, Cherish, who is at that moment kissing Calli’s boyfriend. Things go from bad to worse from there. Cherish has been making Calli’s life hell from the moment she joined her family, but she feels she can’t go to her parents with this because they really want to help Cherish. I felt for Calli in those moments of helplessness, and when she comes up with this plan to get back at Cherish, I wished she’d had someone to talk her out of it because it was a baaaad idea to mess with her. After everything goes down in flames between Calli and Cherish, we get a better understanding of why Cherish is the way she is, and Calli learns to trust in her moms a little more. I enjoyed the way this story transpired and how real it felt. The writing was idiomatic and the characters voices felt authentic. I’d recommend this to fans of YA Contemporary/Issue books. I look forward to reading more by Jessica Lee Anderson soon!

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