Pip has known and liked Sal since childhood he’d supported her when she was being bullied in middle school. There’s not much plot here, but readers will relish the opportunity to climb inside Autumn’s head.Įveryone believes that Salil Singh killed his girlfriend, Andrea Bell, five years ago-except Pippa Fitz-Amobi. Even secondary characters are well-rounded, with their own histories and motivations. Autumn’s coming-of-age is sensitively chronicled, with a wide range of experiences and events shaping her character.
But on August 8, everything changes, and Autumn has to rely on all her strength to move on. In the summer after graduation, Autumn and Finny reconnect and are finally ready to be more than friends. Growing up, Autumn and Finny were like peas in a pod despite their differences: Autumn is “quirky and odd,” while Finny is “sweet and shy and everyone like him.” But in eighth grade, Autumn and Finny stop being friends due to an unexpected kiss. They drift apart and find new friends, but their friendship keeps asserting itself at parties, shared holiday gatherings and random encounters. The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. Trying for snarky and sarcastic, this barely achieves lame no teen will thank you for including this in your collection.
Esch’s debut is a string of embarrassingly unfunny one-liners (most of which rely on penises for their effect) larding a nonsensical plot that features a hopelessly clueless straight-A, ethnic-for-no-reason (other than to have a “funny” name) narrator surrounded by caricatures. If any of this sounds as if it might induce a laugh of any kind other than uncomfortable, it won’t. From a cringe-inducingly creepy relationship with the newspaper’s faculty adviser to a whiskey-soaked undercover visit to a bar to his nude accusations at the Homecoming dance, Dixie stumbles his way through the most downright pathetic investigation imaginable. Dixie spends his week of in-school suspension investigating to clear his name with the help of a new friend, Goth-girl Brynn. He’s sure he’s found the scoop of a lifetime when he catches a member of the football team shooting up in the locker room, but it’s Dixie who gets busted for possession after a disastrous run-in with a school security guard. Fourteen-year-old Stilton High sophomore Dixie Nguyen is the only student who works on the school paper.
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