Wonderfully clean I believe it uses the “h” word one time. Despite Ginny’s family being almost TOO perfect (really, it’s a pleasant change form the usual dysfunction), I totally loved it. Randle, author of The Only Alien on the Planet and. It’s a wonderfully clean story that is sensitive to issues of mental illness and abuse, with love and friendship to boot. Plenty of broad shoulders and broken hearted villains in this one-love gone. Smitty IS a deep character, a genius who’s buried under a mask of unresponsiveness. I related so much to her struggle with knowing who she really is and then having the courage to act like that girl. I loved Ginny as my narrator she had such a unique but completely teenage voice, with this desire to BE something to someone and yet to feel like she fits in. I had no idea where this book was going to take me, but it was amazing. And eventually, Ginny decides that Smitty is worth trying to find, but the journey is not without heartache and some pretty serious consequences. His lack of emotional responses have prompted his classmates to call him “The Alien.” But maybe not - Ginny’s new friend Caulder doesn’t think so he thinks Smitty is in there somewhere. Smitty, the good-looking boy in her classes that is just … not right. When Ginny moves from the west coast to the east coast, she knows things will be different - but she never anticipates meeting Smitty Tibbs.
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