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Blue Van Meer and her urbane professor father Gareth are constantly moving. Blue, intelligent and perceptive, has come to rely on her father as a best friend. Her father, who has left a trail of broken hearts after his wife's death, is funny, sarcastic, and vain.
When they move again, Blue meets Hannah Schneider, a beautiful and mysterious teacher who has acquired a group of young people like a goddess collects worshipers. Blue is soon transformed by this interesting group the school calls the Bluebloods.
Then Hannah commits suicide--Blue's world falls to pieces. But Blue, as intrepid and imaginative as Nancy Drew, does not. And, whether her eventual conclusions are true or "The materials Blue used for her boat, in order to pass without serious injury through a harrowing path of sea," it is Blue whose funny, heartbreaking, and suspenseful journey navigating her final year of high school that drove me through this detailed story. At the end I thought, Oh no, it's over. Loved this book.

Wild Reckless
Kensington's parents are on the verge of separating and she has to begin a new life as a high school senior in the almost-country setting of Woodstock. She immediately makes friends with the band kids, but an enemy of Owen Harper, the school's bad boy--who also happens to be her neighbor.
Wild Reckless is a story of that first passionate love, no matter how dangerous, and scattered with perfect little details of high school life. Owen has a tragic back story which explains his behavior, and Kensington is also experiencing an upheaval in her life.This gives them an authentic reason to bond.
A high school story glittering with atmospheric detail, about two people who find refuge in each other during sorrow, this was a perfect summer read.