42 Miles

42 Miles by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer

Loved it!!! Absolutely loved it!
Just 42 miles. That's how far it is from the downtown apartment where JoEllen lives with her mom to the old family farm where she spends weekends with her dad. But to her, these two homes are worlds apart. In the city, she's Ellen, who hangs out with her girlfriends, plays the sax, and loves old movies. In the country, she's Joey, who rides horses with her cousin, Hayden, goes fishing, and listens to bluegrass. Now - with her thirteenth birthday approaching - she needs to decide: Where do her loyalties lie? Who is the real JoEllen?
Linked free-verse poems combine with scrapbook-style illustrations to create the vivid portrait of a girl who it trying to find herself amid the pieces of her life.

This one is a short one at only 72 pages, and novels in verse always read fast, but there are thoughts to ponder long and hard here, about the combinations of flavors and ingredients inherited from family that in part make us who we are. Once again - loved it!

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Here's one of the poems from the book -done up for a book trailer.