![]() ![]() The book's probably closer to middle grade than YA, which means-holy moly hurray-that Moxie has the occasional crush but there's no focus whatsoever on boys and dates and love triangles. What I like, though, is how understated the reaction is. Really, even if the obvious hadn't happened, well, the obvious would have happened. Helped out Johnny Depp at a crucial moment. Been asked to play a drum solo on a hot band's upcoming album. Crewed an ocean sloop (as the assistant to the swabber.) to help save sea cows. She's not sure yet who she wants to be, so she creates a number of characters.but those characters have all done things that are, shall we say, a little unlikely for your average thirteen-year-old. Well, several, actually, but the first one's a biggie: She lies. ![]() ![]() At boarding school, though, she's a blank slate, and she's determined that her name will not be the most interesting thing about her.īut Moxie makes a mistake. It's off to boarding school for Moxie, and it's an opportunity that she's determined not to let slide-up until now, she's been in school with people she's known her entire life. When I went to boarding school, pretty much my entire frame of reference was the Chalet School series.which, believe you me, did not turn out to be much like modern-day, non-Alps-y, reality.Īnyway. Except that everything I knew about boarding school came from Harry Potter books. Nope, I was just a regular girl going to a regular boarding school. ![]()
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