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Wild, Margaret

Jinx

215 pp. | Walker | August, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-8027-8830-0 $$16.95
(1) YA Written as free-verse poems from many perspectives, the central story is the transformation of good student Jen to stony, spiteful "Jinx," whose boyfriends keep dying. Wild has an empathetic ear for her teenaged characters as well as their parents, and that she makes us care about all that happens in this novel is a feat. The catharsis, more romance than realism, is honestly earned through the depth of the novel's characterization.
Reviewer: Lauren Adams | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2002

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