As a digital subscriber, you’ll receive unlimited access to Horn Book web exclusives and extensive archives, as well as access to our highly searchable Guide/Reviews Database.
To access other site content, visit The Horn Book homepage.
To continue you need an active subscription to hbook.com.
Subscribe now to gain immediate access to everything hbook.com has to offer, as well as our highly searchable Guide/Reviews Database, which contains tens of thousands of short, critical reviews of books published in the United States for young people.
Thank you for registering. To have the latest stories delivered to your inbox, select as many free newsletters as you like below.
No thanks. Return to article
202 pp.
| Holt
| January, 2001
|
TradeISBN 0-8050-6359-5$$16.00
(4)
4-6
Cherry doesn't like her new stepfather, although her best friend Skinny Melon thinks he's nice. Cherry's journal entries show her adolescent angst as she struggles to accept her parents' divorce and her stepfather. Interspersed with Cherry's writings are rebus notes from her stepfather and her mother's letters to a friend. The letters feel out of place and make the mother seem too unsympathetic in this otherwise entertaining novel.