With the warmth and wisdom she brought to her first novel, "Kissing Kate, Lauren Myracle follows the friendship of three fifteen-year-old girls, Angela (SnowAngel), Maddie (mad maddie), and Zoe (zoegirl), through the roller coaster ride of tenth grade, with its boy temptation, donut runs, driving lessons, math torture, and queen bee encounters. The winsome threesome handles it allthen life suddenly jumps the tracks. A jerky boy sends peppy Angela into the dumps. Tough Maddie makes a mistake that has the whole school talking. And good girl Zoe ends up in over her head with a flirty teacher. Just when they need one another most, their friendship seems ready to fall apart.
The distinctive voices of the three girls, as captured in their IMs, give this novel authenticity and heart. It''s an epistolary novel for the twenty-first century, from the keyboard of an author whose work has been called enchantinguplifting ("VOYA), unusually candid ("Publishers Weekly), and insightful ("The Denver Post).
