Hi everyone, this last week of September has a teen review awaiting you in the post below. Award-winning Rebecca Stead has given readers another amazing masterpiece in this story. If you enjoy contemporary tales of teens and their lives and loves, this is one story you should most definitely not miss out on…
Title: Goodbye Stranger
Author: Rebecca Stead
Genre: Fiction – contemporary
Publication details: Text Publishing Company; Melbourne, VIC, 2015
ISBN: 9781925240320 (Paperback)
What this book is about: Two years ago, Bridge, Tabitha and Emily made a pact. Never to forget, ever. Now, in high school, they’re still best friends, but things are changing. Bridge meets Sherm. Emily is getting lots of attention from Patrick. Tab wants to save the world.and when Emily starts taking pictures of herself for Patrick, Bridge and Tab find themselves entangled in a plan that quickly spirals out of control. Can they all still be friends they once were? Goodbye stranger is a tender and captivating story of friendship and love, and the pair sometimes making the wrong choices.
My review: Awesome, awesome, read!! An enchanting and captivating read of all the teen angst and some. Of cyber bullying and normal bullying. And mostly of love. The type that only friends share. Told in a dual narrative, one the story of the three girls, and another from a second person narrative sometime later, which is hard to figure out but we find out in the end!! Just goes to show that only someone with a Newbery can deliver such amazing stories!! That’s all I’m going to leave you with folks!! I don’t want to ruin this read for you if this is your first time encountering Rebecca Stead!! Happy reading!!
My rating: 5 ⭐
Additional notes: This title has been nominated for the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award in 2017, the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award in 2018, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction in 2016 and a few others.
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