Expected on Sale Date: June 18th 2018
Pages: 320
The seventh grade class of Tally is going on a field trip to Washington D.C. . In her class, Tally is kind of a misfit, but she is looking forward though to spend the trip with her best friends Sonnet and Caleb, who will be her roommates, right?
But unfortunately, the kids are not in the position to choose their own roommates, as they learn later. Their teachers have assigned them roommates, and the worst thing has happened; they paired her with popular clonegirl Ava. Her worst enemie. Who always has some mean comments on the ready about Tally's ''body type'' and her clothes, who are not what is in Ava's well read fashion magazines.
The trip starts different then Tally expected, as her best friend Caleb, who doesn't seem like the kid who can stand up for himself, is always bullied, suddenly doesn't seem to need her protection anymore and is making friends with Marco, who always seemed to be his bully. Her other best friend, Sonnet, all of a sudden is into the popular clonegirls group. Huh? What is happening here?? Not surprising at all is Ava's behavior as a roommate. Mean as ever. But then Tally starts to notice something: at trips with her class, Ava throws away most of her food, or only circles her food around on her plate, and is spending hours and hours in the gym. When Tally confronts her, Ava starts to blackmail her; if she rats her out to her mom, she will spread an ugly picture of Tally online. Tally's school trip to Washington D.C. turns tables with her best friends, learns Tally a lot about herself and her flaws, and how she can help someone out who seems to be her enemy.
This book is just brilliant. Everything in it was real and I recognized a lot of it from my own school days . Tally was just so realistic and at her age I also had to deal with some fashion magazine clonegirls like her. What also was just outstandingly good was that nothing in this book went as Tally expected. I love how Barbara Dee always has a serious topic in her books. In Star Crossed this was middle grade school girl falling in love with a girl, in Halfway Normal the main character girl just survived cancer, and in this book an eating disorder makes it's entrance. And as always, she does this in a perfect way . I really loved how Tally just was genuinely worried about Ava, who obviously doesn't seem to deserve this , the way she was just genuinely mean sometimes. But later on, Tally learns why Ava acted the way she did and there was some more under Ava's perfectly polished surface.
This a book that every middle grade reader and older should read and should be ,just as all of Barbara Dee's books in every school library. Definately recommended!!
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