TRUE BLUE FOREVER
Author: Joyce Sterling Scarbrough ISBN: 097223859X 12/2005 YOUNG ADULT Publisher: AUTHORS INK BOOKS
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"Someday, she'll be my girl."
At the fifth grade honors program, three eleven-year-old boys are captivated by a brilliant little red-haired girl named Jeana Russell as she recites the poem she wrote. They know this girl is special, and each boy vows to win her heart. As these four unconventional teenagers grow up together on the Alabama Gulf Coast in the late 1970s, they are bound to each other by friendship, rivalry, and raging hormones.
Jeana struggles to deal with the intense and sometimes violent relationships the boys have with her and with each other. The road she travels to adulthood is paved with laughter, tears, and more than one kind of heartache, but Jeana holds on through it all to the one thing she never questions: a love that's true blue. |
 RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:
TRUE BLUE is meant for young adult readers and maybe that's why I couldn't get too interested in the plot—maybe. The hero Mickey was a likable character. He had a lot of good qualities. And, I identified with Jeana. She reminded me a lot of my own daughter. But, frankly, the story was filled with many scenes that were not interesting and they never went anywhere. The rest of the characters were unlikable—either that, or flat and unnecessary. This book would be easier reading if it were half as long and had a definite direction.
Cynthia Whitten |
