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Review–This Girl Is Different

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  Book Description   This girl is different... That s what Evie has always told herself and it s true. Home-schooled by her counter culture mom, she s decided to see what high school is like for the first time for her senior year. And what a year it is. As it turns out, it s not just Evie who s Different. Lots of people are. Many of her assumptions about others are turned on their heads as she makes friends with kids her own age for the first time, discovers what s good and what s bad about high school, and learns lessons about power and its abuse both by the administration and by Evie herself. Book Review   Even though I finished the book, I am still on the fence about it.  On one hand, I liked the story a lot.  On the other hand, some of the characters were either flat or way too cliché.  Evie had been raised by her flower power mom.  She was even home schooled.  However, Evie decides that she wants to spend her last year in high school with the regular kids.  So s