![]() ![]() Recent posts Recent posts My novels published by The Wild Rose Press Available Nov. It is a teen novel but deals with serious and scary problems. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume has been reviewed by Focus on the Family’s marriage and parenting magazine. In another layer, Davey also helps a new friend Jane face her alcoholism. Davey and Wolf help each other deal with the different ways of dying – slow or quick. It is a rollercoaster ride of emotion as Davey and her mother go to therapy and grow stronger.īlume captures the singular perspective of a teen as her mother dates the Nerd and she fights with her Uncle Walt who sees danger in everything, even learning to ski or drive.īlume also introduces Wolf, a stranger, who is going through a similar emotional crisis as his father dies of cancer. A brown bag in her closet holds a secret revealed late in the book.īlume takes us through the ups and downs of Davey’s life as she deals with her father’s death, her mother’s withdrawal and depression and living with her Uncle Walt and Aunt Bitsy in Los Alamos. She held her father and went with him in the ambulance. After Daveys father is killed in a hold-up, she and her mother and younger brother visit relatives in New Mexico. ![]() Her mother and little brother Jason were out for the night, and she was in the backyard with her boyfriend Hugh when the shots were fired. I saw so many dark and doom teen novels on the shelf, I tried to find something more lighthearted but this one was pretty dark.ĭavey is seventeen and her father has been shot and killed in the store he owned beneath their home in Atlantic City. I went to a library sale and picked up several Young Adult novels. ![]()
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