Summary: Gabi is a senior in high
school and who chronicles her life through her journal. She finds out that her best friend Cindy is
pregnant and her other best friend Sebastian just came out to his parents who
kicked him out of the house and to top it off her dad is a meth addict. Gabi is having her own difficult time with
food and boys. Through her journey Gabi
deals with the death of her father, losing her virginity and her mom’s constant
nagging about her weight. In the end she finds who she is through her beautiful
gift of poetry. Poetry allows Gabi to
deal with the turmoil in her life and come out the other end able to find
balance in her life. This story has so
many things going on; teen pregnancy, gay best friend, drug addicted father who
over-doses and dies, a troubled brother, a mom who nags her constantly. She is completely real and a character young
people and adults can relate to which make this a great novel to read.
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