Name: Peaches
ISBN: 9780060733070

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Three Georgia peaches are in for one juicy summer . . . . . . but Birdie would rather eat Thin Mints and sulk in the AC. Leeda would prefer to sneak off with her boyfriend, Rex. And Murphy just wants to cause a little mischief. Together these three very different girls will discover the secret to finding the right boy, making the truest friends, and picking the perfect Georgia peach.

Peaches

Three teenaged girls from very different backgrounds, thrown together to pick peaches in a Georgia orchard, spend a summer in pursuit of the right boy, the truest of friends, and the perfect peach.

Another book that I'm glad I got for free, because I would have felt ripped off if I paid for it.

That's not to say that it was an awful book, but boy was it boring all the way until the end. We have many Mary Sue type characters, with girls who are always popular and girls who are always attractive to men. Even the "fat" one is skinny and suddenly gets a guy, seemingly as a result of the weight loss. It's just another hum-drum YA novel that tries to show some of the complex social problems teenagers encounter, only to toss so many into the mix that they all fall flat.

It was also hard to follow some of the things that were implied. Like with the different romantic relationships, I was confused as to how it was presented and how Murphy was responding. The delivery was very odd.

Overall, I have read worse, and the ending was good until it took the token "everyone needs to be happy" approach.