Name: Goodbye, Rebel Blue
ISBN: 9781419709302

Shelley Coriell

Rebecca "Rebel" Blue, a loner rebel and budding artist, reluctantly completes the bucket list of Kennedy Green, an over-committed do-gooder classmate who dies in a car accident following a stint in detention where both girls were forced to consider their morality and write bucket lists.

Goodbye, Rebel Blue

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I read this book at the tail-end of a realistic book binge. 
And I liked this book because it was the most real of all these realistic books.
In the first two books I read on this realistic book-binge, the mothers of the main characters were crazy and unsupportive and overall not very motherly, and there wasn’t really any reason for it.
The mother figure in THIS book, Rebel’s (Rebecca’s) aunt was a little unsupportive, but there seemed to be a reason for it! Not the whole reason. As a teenager myself, I understand that sometimes parents do things and act in certain ways that we don’t always understand. As we grow up, we begin to realize a little of the reasoning behind what our parents did, but not all of it, because we don’t live inside out parent’s heads, and therefore, we can never really KNOW.
Also, the romance in this book was believable. It was important, but it wasn’t the point.
Another thing that I liked is that NOT ALL OF THE ITEMS ON THE BUCKETS LISTS WERE FULFILLED. Rebel has her whole life to complete her bucket list (especially those last two items), and she should spend her whole life working though her bucket list. 
We never really do find out what happens to Kennedy, but that’s realistic too. 
The real world is not figuring out all the answers in the end. The real world is not knowing all the reasons, only some of them, only yours. 
The world is not knowing, and not being finished after the last page is turned.
Kudos, Coriell.

Amanda Kordeliski

I loved this one. Rebel has such a clear voice and her determination to be her own person is wonderful.

Goodbye, Rebel Blue

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