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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.