LitPick Review
The Miracle Girls by Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt tells the story of 14 year-old Ana Dominguez. Ana has just moved from San Jose, California to the nearby small town Half Moon Bay. A few weeks after she starts her freshman year of high school in this new town, Ana lands herself and another girl, Riley McGee, in detention after accusing Riley of cheating on a pop quiz. While there, the teens in detention are required to write an essay entitled The Day My Life Changed and are then divided into groups of four to whom they must read their essays. Ana is paired up with Riley and two other girls, Christine and Zoe. After each girl reads her essay, they all realize that the four of them each would have died years ago, but each was saved by a miracle. Ana and Zoe team up and try to befriend the other two miracle girls and in the end the four experience adventures that can only be experience with a true friend.
Opinion:
This book was an exciting, heartwarming page- turner. The Authors have successfully written an intriguing story for teens and preteens. The story is both slightly foreseeable while also being reasonably unpredictable. The details are vivid enough to let you easily picture the settings of the story. Also, the characters are very much real to life. The Miracle Girls is an excellent book that I would recommend to any teenager especially girls.
