Monday, October 29, 2007

Girl at Sea


By Maureen Johnson
(YA F John)
323 pages. 2007 Realistic Fiction



“Once again, her parents’ problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.” These are the thoughts of seventeen-year-old Clio, whose summer plans have been turned upside down. Instead of spending the summer working in an art store with her boyfriend, Clio finds herself aboard a yacht cruising around Italy with her estranged father, his girlfriend and two other teenagers. But this is no pleasure trip, and Clio finds herself right in the middle of a mystery that has her wondering what she’s gotten herself into. (Grades 9 and up)


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