LitPick Review
This book is about Jeri McKane, a girl who attends a fancy boarding school on a scholarship. Jeri is already having second thoughts about going to the boarding school when her best friend's bus never returns from a field trip. When Jeri tries to help, she gets yelled at. Though malicious principals and meddling reporters try to stop her, she never stops trying to do the right thing. She eventually discovers that the saying "never judge a book by its cover" is completely true, and that praying can solve even your most daunting problems.
Opinion:
Okay, let me start by saying that if you start reading this book, you MUST finish it, be cause only about the last 3 chapter are good. Holl's unrealistic characters are very confusing. They seem to change personalities too quickly, perhaps to make the story line work out the way the author intended. One example is the boarding school's principal, who is mean at the beginning, then half way through turns nice, seemingly overnight. Also the rest of the characters are either good or evil, there isn't any gray area. In the end of the book you find out that everyone and everything is good except the one 'bad guy', and that all the problems of the book were just misunderstandings. I think that at least 1 or 2 of the problems should have been real, because it would have made the rest of the book more satisfying.
