Bounce

Natasha Friend's novels all revolve around issues teenage girls face. They are more focused and attracted to the female sex. Therefore these novels would be hard to teach in a classroom of males. But, her novels are fun, easy reads that make us think. I believe I would place this novel in the shelf of my class for students to have the choice to read.

Bounce is a novel about a father getting remarried. Evyn, a thirteen year old girl and her brother Mackey are now forced to move to Boston with their father who is marrying into a female of six children. She knows this change will make her father happy, but she just wants to be left alone.

She longs to be back in Maine with her best friend in the same school and fit in. This novel will be relatable to all students who's mother or father got remarried. It is an adjusting factor. Will Evyn be able to bounce with the changes or will she always be unhappy from here on out?

Afterall, thirteen is a hard age for this change. They strive to fit in and be accepted. She faces this same challenge in going to a new school (a private school), leaving her friends and her town all for her father. Is he going to give her anything from this journey? Will their love for each other grow? One must read to find out!

I believe through this read, you will learn the love of this little girl and the change and the "bounce" one must face when a parent gets remarried. Your life truly changes and sometimes not for the best. But those students who's parents have gotten remarried will now know that they are not alone, even though it is through the words of a fictional character who speaks to her dead mother.