Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Dirty Little Secrets...we all have some!!

This book took place in just one day. Well, actually, a little over twenty fours hours I'm pretty sure. It was amazing though, I loved it from the very beginning and did not want to put it down for a second!! The main character is Lucy, and since her father left when she was about five, her mother has been a hoarder, a collector, a nut-case. When Lucy comes home to find her mother dead under a giant stack of national geographics she starts to dial 911, but then realizes what would happen if she did, all her friends, and her crush Josh, her neighbors, everyone, would find out her dirty secret. What would everyone think about her? How could she stand to live in that filth for so long? She has been without hot water or a door for years, plus she has been living in a mold-infested house as well. She can barely move through her house, so how could the paramedics get through? She decides to do something about it, to not call until she has time to clean everything up, but what will happen if she can't clean everything up in time?? Her sister Sara may be turning into her mother, and her brother is no help now that he has a new life in college with a girlfriend he loves, Lucy's the last one left, so what's a girl to do?? Her mother is dead and not coming back. So how far will one girl go to keep her dead mother's dirty little secret?? Overall grade will have to be an A!!!

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